Thursday, 2 May:

08:30      Welcome to Bergen  (A. Lundervold)
        The COST B11 concerted action
            Dr. R.A. Lerski, Dundee, Chairman of COST B11 Management Committee

08:45      "3D texture analysis for medical applications" (invited lecture)
           Prof. M. Petrou, University of Surrey

Session 1 - Tissue texture (Moderator: H. Stødkilde-Jørgensen)
 

09:45     "Cellular and extracellular structure of the brain" (invited lecture)
            Assoc. Prof. S. Davanger,  University of Bergen

10:15      "Brain tumor architecture / angiogenesis"  (invited lecture)
              Dr. P. Ø. Enger, University of Bergen

11:00    The PSAG phantoms for texture analysis (TA) of MR images
                Dr. D. Jirák

Session 2 - MR measurements(Moderator: R. Lerski)

13:30    Problem of texture measurements in MRI
            Prof. L. Schad, Heidelberg

14:00      "Diffusion-weighted MRI   (invited lecture)
        - Physical Concepts and Actual Clinical Applications"
         Dr. J.G. Hirsch, University of Heidelberg

15:00      "Tissue parameters in perfusion imaging" (invited lecture)
           Prof. O. Haraldseth, Trondheim

15:45    Animals in MR research
             Dr. H. Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Aarhus

Session 3 - Tissue texture models  (Moderator: L. Schad)

16:45       Tissue modeling – aims and methods
           Prof. G. Szekely, Zurich

Friday, 3 May

Session 4 – Texture analysis   (Moderator: A. Materka)

09:00    "3D texture analysis in large-scale data sets" (invited lecture)
             Prof. M. Petrou, University of Surrey

09:30    Texture segmentation using network of synchronized oscillators
         Dr. M. Strzelecki, Lodz (PDF)

09:55    Sub-band filtering for MR texture segmentation
        C.C. Reyes-Aldasoro, University of Warwick

Session 5 – The MaZda software package  (Moderator: L. Schad)

10:30    Functionality of MaZda  w/discussion
         Prof. A. Materka, Lodz,  (PDF)

11:30    Software design of MaZda
         Dr. P. Szczypinski, Lodz,  (PDF)

Session 6 – Medical and biological applications  (Moderator: R. Lerski)
 

13:30    Human liver and liver cirrhosis by MR imaging and spectroscopy:
           texture analysis
              Dr. M. Dezortová, Prague

14:30     Numerical estimation of brain perfusion
             Dr. A. Lundervold / Prof.  A. Malyshev, Bergen

15:00    Texture analysis of calf muscle MR images
             Dr. A. Škoch, Prague

15:30    Food applications
              Dr. A. Karlsson, Tjele

  POSTERS will be on display all day during the Workshop

                A. Santos:  Texture multichannel segmentation algorithms