While the wide spread of digital imaging in medicine, for instance, telemedicine and electronic patient records, is going to generate various problems concerning the color inconsistently reproduced by various display equipment, the multispectral imaging which has far superior accuracy in color reproduction is going to be put into practical use. A common recognition, which was developed at the 1st symposium held on May in last year, that the color problem may affect a wide area of medical science and its practice, and it requires interdisciplinary collaboration of medicine and engineering science to be resolved, has promoted arrangements for the next symposium and establishment of brand-new Digital Biocolor Society at the same time. As well as the 1st symposium, a lot of active attendees are welcome and fruitful discussions are expected at this 2nd symposium.

(1) Applications for panel discussions, ordinary papers and 'research plan proposals' will be received. The 'research plan proposal' is a new trial aimed to promote interdisciplinary research plans, in which a specialist in a field proposes collaboration plans to the specialists in other fields. An e-mail or some other electronic media including a presented paper written in either Japanese or English and information required for registration (instructed below, information of every panelists for a panel discussion) must be received by the secretariat, by the deadline of Tue, February 29, 2000. Papers in Japanese must be accompanied with a summary and legends written in English for participants from other countries than Japan. Figures and tables may be either included in electronic media or sent by mail separately. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and the authors will be notified of the result.
(2) Accepted papers will appear in an electronic version of the proceedings which will be published before the meeting and sent to the registered participants through the internet. Please notice no printed version will be published.
(3) The official languages for presentation are both Japanese and English, and the time given to each speaker will be 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Every presentation should be made by OHP sheets, slide films or a LCD projector, and the speakers are expected to operate every equipment and to prepare the computer used with a LCD projector by themselves. As no simultaneous translation will be provided, speakers using Japanese language should make slides and other materials to be easily understood by audiences from other countries than Japan. Speakers should meet at the reception desk by 30 minutes before the scheduled time for each presentation which will be found in the program.
(4) An electronic version of a scientific journal including the same papers as the proceedings or revised versions of them, summaries of oral discussions, slide films and every other materials will be published and sent to all participants through the internet for participants who could not actually attend the meeting to get almost the same information as attendees. Every author will be expected to submit these materials to the secretariat as soon as possible after each presentation has finished. Papers in Japanese must be accompanied with a summary and legends written in English for participants from other countries than Japan.
(5) Any authors who find difficulties in following instructions mentioned above can feel free to consult the secretariat, because it will provide all kinds of assistance to resolve them as much as possible.

Please send an e-mail, including the participant's name in original language (if possible), the name transcribed in English, the affiliation, the degree, the postal address, the telephone number, the fax number and the e-mail address, to the secretariat. If the participants is resident in Japan, please remit the registration fee of 5,000 Japanese Yen (approximately 50 US$, including seminars, an electronic proceedings, an electronic journal and a welcome party) to the account indicated bellow. Attendees of the symposium must make registration in advance, because only an electronic version of proceedings will be published and no printed material will be distributed at the venue. The registration fee for students is reduced to 2,000 Japanese Yen, and participants resident outside Japan are exempted from paying the registration fee.
[Bank transfer to] Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Medicine, Sumitomo Bank, Ochanomizu Brach (Tel: 81-3-3295-6605), 4-3, Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, JAPAN, account number : 879136 (Please do not make remittance from other countries than Japan)

To your e-mail of registration, please add your requests about the seminars which will be opened free of extra charge for all of the attendees during the symposium. Three or so themes will be selected according to your opinions.