Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing

Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing contains keynote lectures and full papers presented at VIPIMAGE 2007 – 1st ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, held in Porto, Portugal, on 17-19 October 2007. International contributions from fourteen countries provide a comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in:3D ReconstructionComputational Bioimaging and VisualizationComputer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and TreatmentData Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and CompressionImage Processing and AnalysisImage SegmentationMedical ImagingMotion and Deformation AnalysisObjects SimulationObjects TrackingSignal ProcessingSoftware DevelopmentTelemedicine Systems and their ApplicationsRelated techniques covered in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing include the finite element method, modal analyses, stochastic methods, principal and independent components analyses and distribution models. The book will be useful to academics, researchers and professionals in Computational Vision (image processing and analysis), Computer Sciences, Computational Mechanics and Medicine.