The ?rst international conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the 1 Heart (FIMH) was held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2001, thanks to the strongscienti?ccollaborationbetweenFranceandFinland. Thiseventwasa?rst attempt to federate the heart imaging community and to encourage collabo- tion between scientists in signal and image processing, applied mathematics and physics, biomedical engineering and computer science, and experts in card- logy, radiology, biology, and physiology, in Europe and beyond. The conference has encountered considerable success. The outstanding research works pres- ted have demonstrated a very active research ?eld with complex modeling and image analysis problems to be solved. One of the outcomes was the special issue of the Medical Image Analysis journal based on a selection of the conference’s best papers, to appear in the second half of 2003. The FIMH 2001 meeting was the starting point of a discussion for federating the European research e?ort in cardiac imaging, heart modeling, and cardiac image analysis. It was very successful, and a large coalition was created around 2 the e-Heart proposal for a Network of Excellence in the European Sixth Fra- work Program. The e-Heart network has already gathered about 200 researchers from 100 institutes. A project proposal has been submitted to the European Union. It was decided in the ?rst meeting to organize a regular biennial conference.
Editors and Affiliations
CREATIS, INSERM, France
Isabelle E. Magnin
CREATIS, CNRS, INSA, bâatiment Blaise Pascal, Villeurbanne cedex, France
Johan Montagnat,
Patrick Clarysse
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Hut, Finland
Jukka Nenonen,
Toivo Katila
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart
Book Subtitle: Second International Workshop, FIMH 2003, Lyon, France, June 5-6, 2003, Proceedings
Editors: Isabelle E. Magnin, Johan Montagnat, Patrick Clarysse, Jukka Nenonen, Toivo Katila
