Dear visualization experts,
submissions for the 5th "Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award for Visualization in Medicine" (in short medvis-award) are now being invited.
Besides 'glory and honor', the top winners of this biannual competition will receive in total 1,000.00 EUR, donated by the BrainLAB AG. The price will be awarded by the working group of Visual Computing in Medicine of the German society for computer science (“Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI”) during the annual conference of the German society of computer- and robot- assisted surgery (curac) in November 2012, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Please submit innovative results focusing on visualization or user interaction with a clear benefit for medical diagnosis, planning, education, assistance in therapy, or for any general improvement of understanding in medical research.
You will find submission details here:
http://www.fg-medvis.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=medvisaward
Applicants should not have completed their doctoral thesis before 2012.
Students or graduates (m/f) with a diploma/master or even an outstanding bachelor thesis, completed after January 2010, or with up to two publications (published or to be reviewed) from the field of medical visualization should be encouraged to submit their work.
The deadline for submissions will be: July 1st, 2012 (24:00 CET) Please remind or even encourage _your_ colleagues or students to participate.
With best regards
Dorit Merhof& Stefan Zachow
(medvis-award 2012 co-chairs)