The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) announced that it is accepting abstracts for its 2008 annual meeting, which will take place in Seattle May 15-18 next year. Interested authors are encouraged to submit abstracts for scientific papers, posters, and demonstrations, the Leesburg, Va.-based society said.

Abstract topics for the 2008 annual meeting include:

• Imaging informatics for the enterprise
• Imaging vocabularies and ontologies
• Transforming the radiological interpretation process (TRIP)
• Image acquisition/quality assurance (QA)
• Image processing
• Archive integrity and security
• Productivity and workflow
• Image distribution
• Reading room
• Infrastructure and administration
• Experiential and miscellaneous

SIIM has placed detailed information about abstract submission policies and procedures online at: http://www.siimweb.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=2586.