Short visits to other research groups and meetings outside CBA
Note: Meetings occassioned by permanent appointments are listed in section 7.11

1. Carolina Wählby
   Hosts: Åsa Henriksson, Björn Mellgård
   Address: Discovery Medicine CVGI, AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal
   Date: 040120
   Topic: Presentation of PhD thesis ``Algorithms for applied digital image cytometry''.

2. Gunilla Borgefors
   Hosts: The board of FMB: The Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing
   Address: MIC, UU
   Date: 040126
   Comment: Made a brief presentation of CBA and the FMB research at CBA.

3. Xavier Tizon
   Host: Michel Paindavoine
   Address: ESIREM, Dijon, France
   Date: 040322
   Topic: Presentation of work on whole-body angiography.

4. Tommy Lindell
   Host: Kai Sörensen
   Address: NIVA, Oslo, Norge
   Date: 040401-04
   Comment: Reviewing all available MERIS data over Scandinavia.

5. Ewert Bengtsson
   Host: The board of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network, WGLN
   Address: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
   Date: 040420
   Comment: Discussions about the future of this project which provides important funding for the Learning Lab activities.

6. Ewert Bengtsson
   Host: Lois Brooks
   Address: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
   Date: 040421
   Comment: Discussions about the possible participation from Uppsala in the SAKAI software development for web courseware.

7. Ewert Bengtsson
   Host: SUNET Future Group Uppsala Meeting
   Address: Ångstrom Laboratory, Uppsala
   Date: 040426
   Comment: Bengtsson was hosting the Uppsala meeting of the SUNET Future Group. He also gave a 15 minute presentation about UU IT policy.

8. Ewert Bengtsson
   Host: The Dutch university network SurfNet
   Address: SurfNet, Utrecht, Holland
   Date: 040525
   Comment: Meeting between the Dutch university network SurfNet and the SUNET Future Group.

9. Ewert Bengtsson
   Address: Uppsala County Administration
   Date: 040528
   Comment: Discussing some ideas about how to make the great competence in IT in Uppsala more visible. Peter Dahlström, Christoffer Nilsson, and Göran Lundström also participated in the meeting.

10. Ewert Bengtsson
    Host: Examination seminar for Lina Martinsson
    Address: The School of Architecture, KTH
    Date: 040607
    Comment: The Master thesis work of Martinsson at CBA was presented and evaluated. Bengtsson was asked to provide a written evaluation.

11. Tommy Lindell
    Host: Abisko Scientific Research Station
    Address: Abisko Scientific Research Station
    Date: 040628-0702
    Topic: Fieldwork for NorSEN.
    Comment: Fieldwork for NorSEN (Nordkalotten Satellite Evaluation co-operation Network) on Torne Träsk on optical properties of the lake.

12. Gunilla Borgefors, Ingela Nyström
    Host: Governing Board meeting of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
    Address: Cambridge, UK
    Date: 040824
    Comment: Nyström was Swedish representative and Borgefors attended as Chair of the Constitution & Bylaws Committee and as Proxy for Kalle Åström.

13. Gunilla Borgefors
    Host: Editorial meeting of Pattern Recognition Letters
    Address: Cambridge, UK
    Date: 040825
    Comment: All attending editors of this journal met for a working lunch at the ICPR2004 conference.

14. Mats Eriksson, Kristin Norell
    Hosts: Hans Holm, KG Paulsson, Ulf Höglind
    Address: Skoghall Mill, Skoghall
    Date: 040907
    Topic: Meeting with Skoghall on chip quality control using image analysis.

15. Ida-Maria Sintorn, Maria Axelsson, Stina Svensson
    Host: Stefan Gunnarsson
    Address: Evolutionary Biology Centre, UU
    Date: 040917, 041109
    Topic: Confocal microscopy of paper.
    Comment: Volume images of paper samples were collected through fluorescence microscopy to test whether it is possible to get deep enough into the sample with confocal techniques.

16. Ida-Maria Sintorn, Stina Svensson, Magnus Gedda
    Host: Sidec Technologies AB
    Address: Stockholm
    Date: 040920
    Comment: Discussion about continuation of collaboration between CBA and Sidec.

17. Maria Axelsson, Gunilla Borgefors, Stina Svensson
    Host: Catherine Östlund
    Address: STFI-Packforsk, Stockholm
    Date: 040923
    Topic: Future co-operation.
    Comment: Other people at STFI-Packforsk were also present, e.g., Marco Lucisano.

18. Ewert Bengtsson
    Host: IT department
    Address: MIC
    Date: 041007
    Comment: Discussion about research cooperation between IT and biomedicine at UU. About 15 professors in IT and Medicine participated.

19. Ingela Nyström
    Host: Nataša Sladoje
    Address: Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
    Date: 041012-22
    Topic: Continued project on fuzzy shape analysis.

20. Magnus Gedda, Ida-Maria Sintorn, Stina Svensson
    Host: Sidec Technologies AB
    Address: Sidec Technologies AB, Stockholm
    Date: 041020
    Topic: Discussion about collaboration regarding analysis of proteins in volume images.

21. Gunilla Borgefors
    Host: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
    Address: Copenhagen, Denmark
    Date: 041021
    Comment: Planning meeting for a Norfa-funded Nordic summer course in MR image analysis. People from University Bergen, Norway, University Hospital in Aarhus and Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University Copenhagen, Denmark, participated.

22. Carolina Wählby
    Hosts: Urban Wallin, Bo Sandhagen, Olav Mäepea and Albert Alm
    Address: Div. of Ophthalmology, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala Academic Hospital
    Date: 041108
    Topic: Discussions on image analysis in fundus biomicroscopy.
    Comment: The MSc project work by Axel Hjälm (who was also present at the visit) was discussed.

23. Ida-Maria Sintorn
    Host: Holland Cheng
    Address: Dept. of Biosciences, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge
    Date: 041117
    Topic: Presentation of how image anlysis methods can be useful for analyzing electron micrographs.

24. Gunilla Borgefors, Kristin Norell
    Host: Mats Nylinder
    Address: Dept. of Forest Products and Markets, SLU Uppsala
    Date: 041222
    Topic: Wood chip quality.
    Comment: K.G. Persson and others were also present.