The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances in theoretical and applied biomedical imaging and image computing. ISBI 2012 will be the ninth meeting in this series and its 10th anniversary since the first edition. Previous meetings have played an important role in facilitating interaction between medical and biological imaging researchers. The 2012 meeting will continue this tradition of fostering knowledge transfer between different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging across all scales of observation.

The MICCAT workshop is a 1 day single-track workshop on topics related to Medical Imaging. The main goal of this workshop is to support graduate students on their research effort by providing a local forum to present and discuss their ideas, receive critical feedback, to learn to be critical of others work, network and share experience with other students in a friendly and stimulating local atmosphere. Attendees benefit by learning about current research, engaging in technical discussions and meeting researchers with related interests. Oral presentations are assigned preferentially, but not exclusively, to PhD students in their final two years before graduation. Abstracts not selected for the oral sessions are presented in the poster session.

On the 8th of November 2011 the Materials, Health and Medical Technologies Grups Connect-EU are hosting a Personalised Medicine Brokerage event with the collaboration of ACC1Ó and AGAUR. The aim of this event is to help Catalan companies and technology centres to find partners for collaborative projects, technology transfer or commercial agreements. The event will bring together suppliers and users from the personalised medicine sector from all over Catalunya to discuss solutions and new opportunities for the future.

The Government of Catalonia has fostered the creation of Connect-EU Groups aiming to gather Research & Innovation interests and needs from 15 different strategic sectors and position them towards EU programmes and policies. 15 independent working groups integrated by all stakeholders(companies, clusters, universities, research centres) involved in scientific and technological sector in Catalonia are responsible for facing this challenge

The first edition of MICCAT (Medical Image Computing in Catalonia). This workshop was organized by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Universitat de Girona. The main objective of the workshop is in a single day to support students doing research in medical imaging by providing a local forum to present and discuss their ideas,receive comments and critics to know experiences of other researchers.

The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) held the first of a series of VPH Conferences (VPH2010)on 30th September to 1st October, 2010. The meeting took place in the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and was supported by the European Commission ICT for Health /DG Information Society and Media. The meeting was devoted to the VPH Initiative and brought together key representatives from VPH groups, Industry and Clinics.

The second VPH Industry Day, organised by the European Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), aimed to increase the awareness amongst European Industry of the vision, the concepts, and the concrete technological achievements of VPH-related research.

Information Session on ICT Programs from European Projects. At the event attended the European project officer Joel Bacquet, head of the Virtual Physiological Human subprogramme of FP7.

The training, which took place in Sheffield, presented the overall architecture of ITK. Trainers presented the different segmentation algorithms and gave complete examples and implementation of the region growing algorithm, based on intensity, statistics, and region competition.
The course also included how to integrate ITK into applications and trainers also demonstrated how to link ITK and VTK via custom classes.

This workshop, held in Sheffield was aimed at software developers wanting to integrate their own tools in a single application and create a clinical prototype.

The workshop held at the University of Sheffield, focused on end users of GIMIAS. The aim of the workshop was to show the available features in GIMIAS for solving biomedical image computing and simulation problems.

Two workshops were held in the University of Sheffield. The first one was focused on end users of GIMIAS, while the second one was focused on developers of GIMIAS Framework. The goal of this first workshop was to show the available features in GIMIAS for solving biomedical image computing and simulation problems. On 2nd workshop, the aim was on developers that want to integrate their own tools in a single application and create a clinical prototype.

AngioLab is a patient-specific software tool developed to assist the clinician in understanding the risk of rupture of intracranial aneurysms and in carrying out advanced interventional planning. Current users of this tool include mainly researchers that are evaluating the potential of its unique features for aneurysm morphological analysis and endovascular treatment planning.

The presentation was focused on CardioLab suite. Cardio Suite allows performing an entire workflow from medical images to characterization and quantification of myocardial diseases and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) planning, in order to allow the clinician to adequately plan the treatment and the intervention, if required. The sessions were about Software tools and physiological models for improving patient selection for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and optimize the intervention procedure.

This hands-on workshop was organised for research groups interested in the creation of clinical prototypes, algorithms, or demonstrators to be evaluated by clinicians or others professionals and facilitate technology and scientific knowledge transfer. This workshop is organised by CISTIB in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

During this course a workshop on AngioLab was held, where participants could learn the potentialities of the software through hands-on sessions. The teaching course objective was to present future trends on image-based minimal invasive treatment planning and quantification in cerebral aneurysms and to evaluate the usability and potential interest of this platform as a clinical decision-support system in daily practice.

This workshop provided a forum for the discussion of the latest developments in the areas of heart mapping, including atlas construction, statistical modeling of cardiac function across patient groups, cardiac computational physiology, model personalization, ontological schemata for data and results, atlas based functional analysis, integrated functional/structural analyses but also experts in cardiology, radiology, biology and physiology. A simulation challenge was included in this workshop. The goal of this challenge was to compare strategies for the personalization of different cardiac computational models with experimental data.

The toolKit workshop was focus on the identification of 'gaps' in existing tools used by the VPH Community, promoted the use and re-use of these tools in problem-solving activities, and encouraged the collaborative improvement of such tools. The workshop organisers invite interested researchers and practitioners to submit problems identified in their current research projects which require specific tool support. The scope of the workshop included all areas widely related to the virtual physiological human and predictive modelling of the human physiopathology. Proposers were be invited to work closely with the workshop organisers in the preparation of the workshop activities which will be aimed at addressing their specific problems of interest.