Section: Dissemination

Promotion of the Scientific Community

Journal editorial boards

N. Ayache

is the co-founder and the co-editor in Chief with J. Duncan (Professor at Yale) of Medical Image Analysis(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/620983/editorialboard ). This scientific journal was created in 1996 and is published by Elsevier. Its impact factor in 2003 was 4.4, it was 3.2 in 2004, 3.14 in 2005, 3.26 in 2006, 3.5 in 2007 and 3.6 in 2008.

H. Delingette

is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier).

I. Strobant

is editorial coordinator for Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier (since october 2001).

N. Ayache

is associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging(http://www.ieee-tmi.org/ ).

I. Strobant

is editorial assistant for Transactions on Medical Image Analysis, IEEE (since october 2001)

N. Ayache

is a member of the editorial board of the following journals: new SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Medical Image Technology (Japanese journal) and Journal of Computer Assisted Surgery (Wiley).

G. Malandain

is a member of the editorial board of the journal International Journal on Computer Vision (Kluwer).

X. Pennec

is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier) and of the International Journal on Computer Vision (Kluwer).

Participation in the organization of conferences

N. Ayache, H. Delingette, M. Sermesant, I. Strobant, A. Cortell

were strongly involved in the organization of the FIMH'2009 conference (Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart). The conference gathered together 120 experts from 15 countries between 3 to 5 June 2009 in Nice. More precisely N. Ayache was Conference Chair, H. Delingette Program Chair, M. Sermesant Publication Chair, I. Strobant (Web Site Chair), A. Cortell (Local Organization Chair). Proceedings were published by Springer Verlag (500 pages, cf. http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/events/FIMH09/) [74] .

H. Delingette

was the program chair of the conference Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH'09) organized in Nice, a member of the scientific review committee of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'09), the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'09) and the Conference on Information Processing in Medical Images (IPMI) 2009, a program committee member of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP'09), the conference on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'09), the workshop on 3D Physiological Human (3DPH'09), the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'09).

G. Malandain

was a member of the program committee of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'09), and a member of the review committees of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'09), MICCAI workshop on Medical Image Analysis on Multiple Sclerosis (MIAMS'09), and the ateliers de travail sur le traitement et l'analyse de l'information (TAIMA'2009).

X. Pennec

was Workshop co-chair and a member of the program committee of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI'09, track chair at the Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress 2009, member of the program committee of Information Processing in Medical Images (IPMI) 2009, the 13th IMA conference on Mathematics of Surfaces 2009, the Probabilistic Models for Medical Image Analysis PMMIA 2009) MICCAI workshop.

M. Sermesant

was a member of the program committee of the Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart conference and of the MICCAI 2009 Workshop on Cardiovascular Interventional Imaging and Biophysical Modelling.

Scientific animation

Nicholas Ayache

is member of the scientific council of the Institute for Technologies of INSERM. He is also a member of the "comité sectoriel du département Biologie-Santé of the "Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)", and a member of the "Comité de la Recherche Biomédicale en Santé Publique (CRBSP)" of the Nice hospitals from beginning of 2008.

G. Malandain

is deputy scientific director of INRIA in charge of the Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and the Environment domain. He is also chairing the local experimentation and software development committee (CDT).

G. Malandain

was an evaluator for the Axa Research Fund, and for Paris 13 university.

O. Clatz

is a member of the scientific committee and evaluator for the research cluster ISLE of Rhônes-Alpes.

X. Pennec

was an evaluator for the French research evaluation agency (AERES), for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), for the (US) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), for the ARED and DEFIS program of the French Research Agency (ANR) and for the research council of the University of Liege (Belgium). He was also a member of the Jury of the Gilles Kahn SPECIF PhD award, member of the Jury of the Chair of Numerical Medicine between INRIA and the University of Nice.

H. Delingette

was a member of the local committee in charge of the scientific selection of visiting scientists applications (Comité Nice). He was an evaluator for the integrated European project ARTREAT, for an austrian competence center in the COMET program, for several project proposals submitted to the french research agency ANR.

M. Sermesant

is a member of the INRIA-INSERM reflexion group on "modelling living systems". He is an evaluator for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), EPSRC United Kingdom, and New Zealand and Netherlands Research councils. He is member of the CUMIR (local committee representing the users of computer services) and of the CCC (local committee in charge of the selection of funding for courses and conferences organisation).