March 31, 2001
Dear Members,Pursuant to the article 6-4 of the Constitution, I will report the settlement of accounts and theannual report of activities in the 2000 fiscal year as follows.
Hiroshi TANAKA
President, Digital Biocolor Society
A. Statement of accounts**
Term: From April 1, 2000 to December 31, 2000
Income (the unit is Japanese yen)
Donation *1
290,016
Interest99
Income from enterprises *23,000-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total
293,115
Expenditure (the unit is Japanese yen)
Article of consumption *3
36,561
Balance carried forward
256,554-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total
293,115** Comments of the Auditors were omitted because no election for them has been made.
*1 Surplus of the 2nd Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Biology and Medicine (16yen), SGI Japan, Ltd. (90,000 yen) and the International Clinical Pathology Center (200,000yen)*2 Sales of one volume of the Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging inMedicine*3 Expense for the Font data used to produce the electronic version of the Proceedings of the 2nd
Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Biology and Medicine

B. Annual report of activities
1. During the 2nd Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Biology and Medicine, theMeeting for Foundation of Digital Biocolor Society was held on April 1, 2000, and agreement on theConstitution and election of the first Executive Directors and the President were made as recorded inthe minutes attached to this document.
2. Pursuant to the article 1-2 of the Constitution, the home page was established at the following
address.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/
3. After the elected Executive Directors were asked of acceptance of appointment and the Corporate

Officers were appointed pursuant to the article 5-6 of the Constitution, people who are found at thefollowing address finally took their office.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/directors.html
4. The application for a Grant-in-Aid from the Japanese government for publishing the English
version of the Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Medicine wasaccepted. The Publication Chairperson took the lead to carry out the project plan which is found at
the following address.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/book200102/manuscripts/
In addition, this books was titled as "Digital Color Imaging in Biomedicine" and already publishedfrom ID Corporation on February 28, 2001, and the electronic version is found at the followingaddress.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/book200102/
5. In connection with the above-mentioned publication, the electronic publishing of an academic
journal which featured the 2nd Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Biology andMedicine, and publication of an electronic newsletter were postponed. With completion of thepublication, both are due to be moved to execution soon.
6. Digital Biocolor Society cosponsored the Second International Symposium on Multispectral
Imaging and High Accurate Color Reproduction held at Chiba University on October 10 - 11, 2000.
The home page of this symposium is found at the following address.
http://www.icsd6.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp/~tsumura/2nd/SpectSympo2000.html
7. Preparation of the 3rd Symposium of the 'Color' of Digital Imaging in Biology and Medicine wasadvanced. The Chairperson of the Executive Committee of this symposium is Vice-President Yoichi
Miyake and it will be held at Tokyo Medical and Dental University on July 13 - 14, 2001. The Callfor Papers are due to be announced soon.
Concluded.

Minutes of the Meeting for Foundation of Digital Biocolor Society
Date: April 1, 2000 18:10 to 18:35 JST
Place: The Lecture Hall of the Building No.5, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Proceedings:(1) Establishment of Digital Biocolor Society was approved on the basis of the Constitution foundat the following address.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/constitution.html (the Japanese version)
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/constitution_e.html (the English version)(2) Following people were elected as the first Executive Directors.
-All members of the Preparatory Committee for Digital Biocolor Society found at the following
address.
http://biocolor.umin.ac.jp/sympo199905/index.html#members_pre-Professor Debu Mukhopadhyay, Theory Group and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics andCalcutta, India-Dr Debaprasad Chaudhuri, M.D., Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Darjeeling District
Hospital, Darjeeling, India-Professor Dr Pradip Kumar Deb, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Institute of Postgraduate MedicalEducation & Research, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India-Dr. Jong-Hyun Yoon, Director of Clinical Pathology, Borame Hospital and Seoul, Korea-Professor Shen Hong, Department of Pathology and 1st Military Medical University and Guang
Zhou, 510515 China-Barry Pass, DDS, PhD, Head, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology/Director, Radiation
Dosimetry Laboratory, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada(3) However, among the elected Executive Directors, absent people were due to be asked of
acceptance of appointment later.
(4) Professor Hiroshi Tanaka of Tokyo Medical and Dental University was elected as the first
President.
Concluded.