Workshop was a great success!
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, January 17-18, 2008
This NSF sponsored workshop brought together over 150 researchers who work at the intersection of bioimaging and image informatics. Participants presented interesting and significant results from their research efforts in the study of biological processes. The research presented spanned a broad range of disciplines, including image data analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, visualization, and informatics.Overall the workshop was a great success and facilitated the cross-polination of research ideas from different Bio-Imaging research laboratories around the world. Submissions were way up on last year, with a total of 55 submissions overall, including 23 oral presentations with 7 invited talks and 2 keynote speakers. There were 32 poster presentations on display in two specific poster sessions and throughout the workshop. Attendance was high on both days of the workshop and rich discussion followed every presentation that was delivered. The workshop concluded with a lively discussion panel consisting of a range of perspectives from prominent researchers on the salient issues of standardization and the establishement of reliable benchmarks within bio-imaging and its associated fields. These perspectives addressed the need for high quality, reliable test datasets for validation of image processing and analysis algorithms. The discussion panel was chaired by Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley and Maryann Martone, UCSD. The panel consisted of Mark Ellisman (UC Berkeley), Anne Carpenter (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT), Jonathon Phillips ( National Institute of Standards and Technology) and Ilya Goldberg (National Institute of Health). The discussion was contributed to by a large number of questions and comments from the audience.
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