Preface

摘要

We are very pleased to present the conference proceedings for the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), which was successfully held at the Granada Conference Center, September 16-20, 2018 in Granada, Spain. The conference also featured 40 workshops, 14 tutorials, and ten challenges held on September 16 or 20. For the first time, we had events co-located or endorsed by other societies. The two-day Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine (VCBM) Workshop partnered with EUROGRAPHICS, the one-day Biomedical Workshop Biomedical Information Processing and Analysis: A Latin American perspective partnered with SIPAIM, and the one-day MICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion on MRI was endorsed by ISMRM. This year, at the time of writing this preface, the MICCAI 2018 conference had over 1,400 firm registrations for the main conference featuring the most recent work in the fields of: 1. Reconstruction and Image Quality 2. Machine Learning and Statistical Analysis 3. Registration and Image Guidance 4. Optical and Histology Applications 5. Cardiac, Chest and Abdominal Applications 6. fMRI and Diffusion Imaging 7. Neuroimaging 8. Computer-Assisted Intervention 9. Segmentation This was the largest MICCAI conference to date, with, for the first time, four volumes of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings for the main conference, selected after a thorough double-blind peer-review process organized in several phases as further described below. Following the example set by the previous program chairs of MICCAI 2017, we employed the Conference Managing Toolkit (CMT)4 for paper submissions and double-blind peer-reviews, the Toronto Paper Matching System (TPMS)5 for automatic paper assignment to area chairs and reviewers, and Researcher.CC6 to handle conflicts between authors, area chairs, and reviewers.