Title: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group ISSN: 2168-1163 (print) - 2168-1171 (online)
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. João Manuel R. S. Tavares Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 PORTO PORTUGAL email:
[email protected] URL: http://www.fe.up.pt/~tavares
Journal webpage: http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv Journal in Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Cmbbe.Image.Visualization
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Aims & Scope Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is an international journal whose main goals are to promote solutions of excellence for both imaging and visualization of biomedical data, and establish links among researchers, clinicians, the medical technology sector and end-users. The journal provides a comprehensive forum for discussion of the current state-ofthe-art in the scientific fields related to imaging and visualization, including, but not limited to: •
Applications of Imaging and Visualization Computational Bio- imaging and Visualization Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment Data Processing and Analysis Devices for Imaging and Visualization Grid and High Performance Computing for Imaging and Visualization Human Perception in Imaging and Visualization Image Processing and Analysis Image-based Geometric Modelling Imaging and Visualization in Biomechanics Imaging and Visualization in Biomedical Engineering Medical Clinics Medical Imaging and Visualization Multi-modal Imaging and Visualization Multiscale Imaging and Visualization Scientific Visualization Software Development for Imaging and Visualization Telemedicine Systems and Applications Virtual Reality Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
The journal welcomes contributions covering theories, methodologies, devices and applications of imaging and visualization and assures a fast publishing process of original research manuscripts, position manuscripts expressing stimulating viewpoints and philosophies, survey manuscripts, technical notes and short communications, in regular and special issues.
Description Image Processing and Analysis (Imaging) is a field that aims to enhance digital images and extract high-level information from static images or dynamic image sequences. The enhancing of damaged images, the recognition of structures from images and the analysis of cells and tissues from image sequences are practical examples for the use of Imaging. Scientific Visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science, primarily concerned with the 2
visualization of data from computational, experimental or natural phenomena that is common to several domains such as biology, medicine, biomedical engineering and biomechanics. Its emphasis is on the building up of realistic images, volumes, surfaces, and other graphical structures so that the data, which often contains a dynamic component, is organized clearly for representation and analysis. Imaging and visualization are two important and predominant branches of science. As they both involve computational algorithms, computational systems, data sets, human perception, software & hardware systems and other topics, they are nowadays considered to be strongly related. As these two fields are closely connected there is a need for a journal that brings them together. Thus, the international journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” contributes to find solutions for both imaging and visualization from biomedical data and establish links among researchers, developers of technologies and end-users, providing an opportunity for discussion on the current state-of-the-art techniques in imaging and visualization and related subjects. Contributions covering theories, methodologies, devices and practical applications for imaging and visualization are welcome. Although its emphasis is on the publication of original research manuscripts, position manuscripts expressing stimulating viewpoints and philosophies, survey manuscripts, technical notes and short communications are also welcome. Submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the editorial board of the journal and those judged as presenting potentially significant research contributions within the scope of the journal are formally reviewed. Suitability for publishing is based on relevance to the overall journal editorial goals, originality, technical quality and readability. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization has two types of issues: regular issues and special issues. The regular issues publish collections of manuscripts without a special topic. The special issues have specifically aimed and targeted topics of interest contributed by authors responding to a particular Call-for-Papers. Regular manuscripts can be submitted at any time, while special issue manuscripts have to follow specific schedules and submission guidelines. Proposals for special issues should be submitted directly to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editorial Board of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization includes internationally recognized experts on topics of Imaging (Image Processing and Analysis / Computational Vision), (Data) Visualization and Medicine. Number of articles per issue: 6-8 Number of issues per volume: 4
Readership Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization regards two scientific fields as being very predominant and fluorescent: 3
Imaging (Image Processing and Analysis / Computational Vision) and Visualization (Data). In terms of scientific journals, these two major fields have been considered separately. However, the two fields are closely connected making an urgent need for the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization”. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is suitable for senior researchers in Universities and Research Laboratories, professionals and organizations involved in the development and use of computational algorithms and hardware solutions for imaging and visualization, such as complex software systems for image processing and analysis, enhanced software packages for visualization and data generation or for real time processing of large complex datasets. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is important for scientific and research institutions, schools and universities, companies, clinical organizations, and libraries worldwide, particularly those related with Imaging (Image Processing and Analysis / Computational Vision) and (Data) Visualization. The primary readers of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization includes researchers and professionals from several multidisciplinary fields, related to Bioengineering, Biomechanics, BioSports, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Computational Mechanics, Mathematics, Physics, Medical Clinics, Medical Imaging and Medicine. Due to the two main scientific fields that Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is focused on (Imaging and Visualization) the journal will create a certain impact as there are a considerable number of researchers working in these fields with numerous applications and devices, and a number of international conferences related to these same fields.
Advisory Board -
Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin, USA Chris Johnson, University of Utah, USA Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, USA John Middleton, Cardiff University, UK Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Shuo Li, University of Western Ontario, Canada Thomas J. R. Hughes, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Associated Editors -
USA and Canada: Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Asia: Jun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Europe: Daniela Iacoviello, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Rest of the world: Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA
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Editorial Board -
Alejandro Frangi, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Alexandre Cunha, California Institute of Technology, USA Alexandre X. Falcão, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Bernard Gosselin, University of Mons, Belgium Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University, USA Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Daniel Cremers, Technische Universität München, Germany David Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada Durval C. Costa, Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal Eduardo Soudah, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain Fatima L. S. Nunes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Fiorella Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy George Bebis, University of Nevada, USA Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany João Paulo Papa, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil Jorge S. Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Khan M Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA Laurent Cohen, Universite Paris Dauphine, France Lionel Moisan, Université Paris Descartes, France Lorenzo Mannelli, University of Washington, USA M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain Marc Thiriet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Paola Lecca, University of Trento, Italy Paolo Di Giamberardino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA Reneta Barneva, State University of New York Fredonia, USA Xue-Cheng Tai, University of Bergen, Norway Yan Nei Law, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Manuscripts Review The Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization has one Editor-in-chief, an Advisory Board, 4 Associated Editors (one for the USA and Canada, one for Asia, one for Europe, and one for the rest of the world) and around 30 Editors. The Editorial Board of the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is composed of international researchers with relevant experience on the topics addressed by the journal. Membership to the Editorial Board is updated every two years.
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Each manuscript submitted to Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization will be reviewed by a minimum of 2 members of the Editorial Board. The reviewers will be selected by the correspondent Associated Editor that will make his/her recommendation about the reviewed manuscript to the Editor-in-chief. The Editor-in-chief will be the responsible for the final decision based on the Associated Editor’s recommendation and the policies and objectives of the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization Journal and the Taylor & Francis Group. When a manuscript is first submitted, it will be evaluated by the Editor-in-chief. After confirmation of its suitability for the journal, it will be forwarded to the correspondent Associated Editor (based on the world region of the correspondent author). Based on the content of manuscript, the correspondent Associated Editor will be responsible for selecting 3 members of the Editorial Board, collecting their review comments, and making his/her recommendation to the Editor-in-chief. Then, the Editor-in-chief will make the final decision on the reviewed manuscript.
Instructions for Manuscripts Submission (while the T&F electronic submission system is not ready): - Manuscripts should be sent by email directly to the Editor-inChief (
[email protected]) in Adobe Acrobat Format (pdf); - 15 to 30 A4 pages in one column double spaced should be assumed; - The manuscript must provide authors’ names, affiliation and emails, and should include title, abstract and keywords; - Authors are free to suggest three names of the Editorial Board for the review process.
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