"An international conference on PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems" CMA, Oslo, August 8-12 2005

With the advance of modern computers, the world is becoming more and more digital. Some tasks, which involved a huge amount of data and seem to be impossible a few years ago, is now solved and used in many different applications. Especially, huge amount o f data containing digital images needs to be processed and analysed in medical applications, biology research, astronomy, internet communication, satellite images for civil and defence purposes as well as many other applications. The conference will focu s on, but not limited to the following topics for image analysis and processing: Noise analysis and removal; Image inpainting; Image segmentation; 3D image analysis including shading, motion, shape and edge detection; Analysis and processing of MR images and brain mapping; Diffusion tensor image analysis; Simulation and image techniques for ECG and other medical techniques; and Image processing and data mining for internet communication and information technology. Inverse problems for partial differenti al equations have large areas of applications. One heavily studied application is for oil reservoir simulations. Image analysis and PDE inverse problems seems to be unrelated. However, many techniques used by one of these two areas is useful for the other . For example, many of the regularization techniques and segmentation ideas used for image processing have find interesting applications for oil reservoir inverse problems. We shall use this conference to highlight some of the recent efforts in merging so me of the techniques for these two research areas.