Call for papers - Advances in fluorescence-based medical imaging

Guest Editors:
M. Julius Hossain: University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Muzamil Majid Khan: Cell Biology and Biophysics, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
V. V. G. Krishna Inavalli: University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 28 June 2024

BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on Advances in fluorescence-based medical imaging. This collection seeks to showcase research studies that focus on the advancement and validation of fluorescence-based imaging techniques in both in vitro and in vivo settings, with a specific emphasis on their applications for diagnosing and managing human diseases. We are particularly interested in studies that enhances and optimizes fluorescent probes capable of selectively targeting tumor or disease-specific biomarkers or cellular processes for detection and characterization of cancer or other diseases. Additionally, we encourage research on how fluorescence-based imaging can aid in monitoring therapeutic response and facilitating fluorescence-guided surgeries. Furthermore, we also encourage submissions of data analysis and computational modeling studies that provide evidence for effectiveness of imaging-based methods in the study and diagnosis of human diseases.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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M. Julius Hossain: University of Southampton, United Kingdom

M. Julius Hossain is the Head of Image and Data Analysis at the Centre for Cancer Immunology, University of Southampton. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Computing at the University of Dhaka and conducted interdisciplinary research on cell division regulation at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) for 10 years. His research has been published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science, Nature Cell Biology, and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. Currently, his research interests include computational cancer biology, computer-aided drug discovery, intracellular trafficking, and systems biology of cell division.

Muzamil Majid Khan: Cell Biology and Biophysics, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Working as a Research Associate at EMBL, Heidelberg, his focus is on translating basic research to patient bedside in fight against respiratory diseases involving extracellular matrix remodelling. During a Joint Post-doc Fellowship (EMBL-GlaxoSmithKline pharma company), he has characterised an ex-vivo cultured 3D human lung tissue model and conducted an FDA-approved drug library screening for pulmonary fibrosis treatment. He has been using fluorescence microscopy for more than a decade in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo model system.

V. V. G. Krishna Inavalli: University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Inavalli is currently working as a Head of microscopy group at the Centre for Cancer Immunology, University of Southampton. His research focuses on developing cutting-edge fluorescence microscopy techniques to probe cellular biology. He has developed various light microscopy techniques ranging from diffraction-limited to super-resolution microscopy to image subcellular structures and protein organization and dynamics. His research findings have been published in prestigious journals including Cell, Nature Methods, Nature Communication, etc. He is developing advanced microscopy techniques to investigate antibody based cance therapeutics.

About the Collection

BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on Advances in fluorescence-based medical imaging. Fluorescence-based imaging offers valuable insights into the spatial arrangement of target cells, molecules and processes related to various diseases. Particularly in a clinical context, the use of highly precise and sensitive agents as tracers enables the visualization and characterization of enzymes, proteins, metabolites, and receptors that play a role in diseases or various health conditions.

This collection seeks to showcase research studies that focus on the advancement and validation of fluorescence-based imaging techniques in both in vitro and in vivo settings, with a specific emphasis on their applications for diagnosing and managing human diseases. We are particularly interested in studies that enhances and optimizes fluorescent probes capable of selectively targeting tumor or disease-specific biomarkers or cellular processes for detection and characterization of cancer or other diseases. Additionally, we encourage research on how fluorescence-based imaging can aid in monitoring therapeutic response and facilitating fluorescence-guided surgeries. Furthermore, we also encourage submissions of data analysis and computational modeling studies that provide evidence for effectiveness of imaging-based methods in the study and diagnosis of human diseases.

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Advances in fluorescence-based medical imaging" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.