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CinC 2010 News
(updated 24 August 2010)
The preliminary scientific program of CinC 2010 is on-line, including abstracts of all scheduled presentations. Preprints of many of the papers that will be presented at CinC 2010 are also available. (To add your paper to the preprint collection, check the "Post as Preprint" box on the submission form.)
Registration for CinC 2010 is still open, although the discount for early registration ended on 15 August. The registration fee is US$750.
Accommodation in the conference hotel may still be available, although the special rate offered by the hotel to conference participants ended on 15 August.
New and Noteworthy Poster Session: This year, for the first time, the poster sessions will include a special section of presentations of work performed since the 1 May abstract submission deadline, offering participants an opportunity to hear about the most important results of ongoing and recently concluded research obtained by their colleagues during the weeks and months immediately before the conference. If you have registered for CinC 2010 and would like to participate in this session, please read more about it here.
If you missed the 1 May abstract submission deadline, please consider submitting your abstract to CinC 2011. Instructions for doing so will be posted here following this year's meeting.
The CinC Board and the CinC 2010 Local Committee met at the end of May to review all of the submitted abstracts and to construct a schedule of presentations. We were assisted by more than 20 external expert reviewers this year; most abstracts received at least 4 independent reviews in advance of the review meeting. We thank all those who participated in the review process.
Abstract decision letters have been sent by email to all those who submitted abstracts. A few letters could not be delivered since the submitters did not supply correct email addresses with their abstracts; if you submitted an abstract but did not receive a decision letter, please send us a note including the title of your abstract and your correct email address.
Authors of accepted abstracts may submit their full papers at any time until 19 September. If you submitted an accepted YIA or other pre-acceptance review paper, you may revise it if you wish at any time until 19 September. If you wish to make your paper immediately available in the preprint collection, you may do so at the time you submit it, or at any later time.
CinC 2009 on-line
Papers presented at CinC 2009 in Park City have been added to the on-line archives of Computing in Cardiology. These full-text searchable archives include nearly 2000 papers presented at the past 9 annual CinC conferences (volumes 28-36, 2001-2009).
President's Newsletter, November 2009
CinC President Peter Macfarlane's newsletter reports on our organization's recent activities and plans. If you participated in a CinC meeting or submitted an abstract to CinC within the past few years, you should have received a copy of this newsletter by email in November; if you did not, and you would like to receive our announcements, please add yourself to the CinC mailing list (or send an empty email to AddThisAddress@cinc.org) and we will send them to your email address in the future.
CinC 2009 in Park City
The 36th annual CinC conference took place 13-16 September 2009 in Park City, Utah. The three-day scientific program included presentations of over 200 papers.
The winner of the Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award this year was Kun Wang of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, whose paper, A Comparison of 2D and 3D Edge Detectors in Semi Automated Measurements of Chamber Volumes Using 3D Echocardiographic Laboratory Phantom Images, begins on page 1 of Computers in Cardiology 2009.
This year's PhysioNet/CinC Challenge Awards were won by Xiaoxiao Chen of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (Forecasting Acute Hypotensive Episodes in Intensive Care Patients Based on a Peripheral Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform); and Jorge Henriques and Teresa Rocha of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Prediction of acute hypotensive episodes using neural network multi-models).
The Gary and Bill Sanders Poster Awards for CinC 2009 were given to Beatriz Carbonell of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (Ionic Basis of Arrhythmic Risk Biomarkers on Simulated Rabbit Ventricular Myocytes); R Sebastian of University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (Modeling the Purkinje Conduction System with a Non-Deterministic Rule-Based Iterative Method); Wanmeng Zuo of Harbin Institute of Technology, China (Simulation of Effects of Ischemia in 3-D Human Ventricle); Antoine Simon, of the University of Rennes, France (Cardiac Function Estimation Using Multislice Computed Tomography: A Comparison to Speckle Tracking Imaging); Remy Dubois, of ESPCI Paris Tech, France (Mapping Myocardial Elasticity Changes after RF-Ablation Using Supersonic Shear Imaging); and Pietro Bonizzi, of the University of Nice, France (Ventricular Activity Residual Reduction in Remainder ECGs Based on Short-Term Autoregressive Model Interpolation).
If you were among the more than 300 attendees (or if you missed this year's event), you may enjoy this year's photo album. After the final plenary session, a few of us gathered outside for the group photo below. We hope to see you again at CinC 2010 in Belfast!
CinC 2009, Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Anton Safer