The next general meeting of the ONCO-MEDIA (ONtology and COntext related MEdical image Distributed Image Access) project will be held on July 18-19, 2007 at the Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in Tsukuba, Japan. Download poster here.

Tentative Program

July 18 (Wednesday)
09:00 - 10:00	Welcome coffee and Registration
10:00 - 11:30	Business Meeting Greetings by GTRC Director Dr. Sekiguchi Summary of ONCO-MEDIA project, D. Racoceanu Q&A, Discussion
11:30 - 01:00	Lunch break
01:00 - 05:30	Progress reports and Research perspectives Daniel Racoceanu - UML modeling of Semantic Intermedia Fusion in CBIR Patrick Brezillon - A context model for CBIR Asmaa Hidik - MedGIFT project Johan Montagnat - Texture-based medical image indexing Toshi Nakai & Epifanio Bagarinao - Functional neuroimaging data retrieval Yoshio Tanaka - Direction of GRID computing and e-science Rafael Saldana - Watershed algorithm and Latent Semantic Indexing Heng-Shuen Chen & Merri Su - CBIR for Dementia Diagnosis
July 19 (Thursday)
09:00 - 09:45	Summary of the presentations on the 18th    Short listing of the main topics for the afternoon brainstorming
09:45 - 10:00	Coffee break
10:00 - 12:00	AIST Tour Aist Outline (10:00 - 10:30) Masaki Shimomura Information Technology Research Institute (10:30 - 11:15) Real-World Based Interaction Group Takuichi Nishimura, PhD (Group Leader) 3-D Museum Guide with Route Recommendation Using a Personal Positioning System Takashi Okuma, PhD Ubiquitous Community Assistance Takuichi Nishimura, PhD Grid Technology Research Center (11:20 - 12:00) Satoshi Sekiguchi, PhD (Director) Yoshio Tanaka, PhD (Principal Research Scientist) Introduction of Research Activities at GTRC and the AIST Super Cluster
12:00 - 01:00	Lunch break
01:00 - 05:30	Additional presentations: Shigeto Watanabe & Junichi Hasegawa - Features for Detection of Cancer Lesions from Abdominal CT Images Tsuyoshi Shiina - Real-Time Ultrasound Elastography-Development of Novel Medical Image Diagnosis Based on Tissue Elasticity Brainstorming Fix common research foci Exchanges of students, research fellows Find a common interest topic for a project proposal
July 20 - July 21
JAMIT Annual Meeting (Program Outline) Tsukuba International Congress Center (Epochal Tsukuba) International Symposium Medical Image Analysis and its Application - Ontology and Context Related Medical Image and Distributed Intelligent Access

Acccess Maps and Guides

Here are some maps and other useful information to reach AIST Tsukuba:

• Access guide from Narita Airport to AIST Tsukuba
• Map of AIST Tsukuba Central
• AIST Guide and Access Map
• English instruction in going to AIST Tsukuba from Narita Airport
• Alternative way to Tsukuba Center via Tokyo Station