At the 9th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering (in Valencia on 24-27 February, 2010) there will be a special session on “The Virtual physiological Human (GPH) project and Imaging in Biomechanics”.

This session will focus on patient-specific modeling and simulation of various body systems functioning in the framework of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) calls of EU FP7 (http://vphop.eu/) and on image processing and analysis in biomechanics. Nowadays, multistage investigations aim at tackling time and length scales involved in the behaviour of biological and biomechanical systems (e.g., blood circulation, ventilation, digestion, renal purification, musculoskeletal apparatus, tumour growth, etc.) that sense, react, and adapt to environmental loadings, and in the study of that behavior from images.

Topics include (but not limited to) enhanced bio mathematical and biomechanical models, data mining and visualization, image segmentation, motion tracking, image alignment and registration, 3D reconstruction, medical imaging, applications of imaging processing and experiments for validation.

They are currently soliciting papers on these topics and.  Abstracts must be in by October 16th.  Full details are at the CMBBE2010 website.