Trip To Taiwan, Day 2. Nov. 19, 2007

TRIP TO TAIWAN
Nov. 18 - 26, 2007

Day 2. Monday, November 19, 2007.

8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Academica Sinica Coffee Shop

9:00 Opening Ceremony, 5th ICT Asia Regional Seminar, ICT Asia Program

Welcome Remarks:

• Mr. WONG Chi-Huey, President of Academia Sinica
• Mr. Jean-Claude POIMBOEUF, Director of the French Institute in Taipei
• Mr. YANG Hung-Duen, Deputy Minister of the National Science Council
• Mr. Christian THIMONIER, Vice-Director In-Charge of Scienc
  

10:00 Session I. Presentation of Projects in Progress

• MOSAIC: Mobile Search and Annotation using Images in Contest, Dr. Joo-Hwee LIM, IPAL-CNRS, Singapore
• ONCO-MEDIA: Ontology and Context Related Medical Image Distributed Intelligent Access, Dr. Daniel RACOCEANU, IPAL-CNRS, Singapore
• SCOUT: Survey of Catstrophe and Observation in Urban Territories, Dr. Eric CASTELLI, MICA-CNRS, Vietnam
• MNSD: Models and Simulations for Natural Disasters, Dr. Jean SERRA, IGM, France

12:40 Lunch Break.

After Lunch, our ONCO-MEDIA partners led by Dr. Daniel Racoceanu and I proceed to the Wangfang Hospital, about 45 minutes travel by taxi from the Academia Sinica. The ONCO-MEDIA Project Workshop was held from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Our presentations were as follows:

• "Use of the Medical Knowledge and Medical Cases for Stroke Detection from Brain CT", Dr. Daniel Racoceanu, IPAL-CNR, Singapore
  
  
• "Image Processing as Process: Applications on Cerebral MRI", by Dr. Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris, France
  
  
• "Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval for Assisted Diagnosis, Medical Research, and Teaching" by Dr. Wee-Kheng Leow, National University of Singapore
  
  
• Video Conference: "Data Management for Neuroimaging in Medical GRID" by Dr. Toshiharu Nakai and Dr. Epifanio Bagarinao, AIST, Japan
  
  
• "A Web-Based Query and Retrieval System of Federated DICOM Image Archives" by Dr. Rafael Saldaña (in collaboration with Karlo Layug, Paolo Tioseco and Allan Espinosa), Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
  
  
• "Intelligent Medical Image Retrieval with Electronic Medical Records for Dementia Treatment Enhancement" by Mei-Ju Su, National Taiwan University

After our paper presentations, the Chief Information Officer of Wang Fang Hospital showed us some medical information systems and innovative equipment being used by the hospital.

After the hospital tour, our ONCO-MEDIA group proceeded to the Sherwood Hotel for the Welcome Reception (Cocktail and Dinner) sponsored by Mr. Jean-Claude Poimboeuf, Director of the French Institute in Taipei.