I Enhancement -- Fundametal Enhancement Techniques;Adaptive Image Filtering; Enhancement by Multiscale Nonlinear Operators; Medical Image Enhancement with Hybrid Filters. -- II Segmentation -- Overview and Fundamentals of Medical Image Segmentation; Image Segmentation by Fuzzy Clustering: Methods and Issues; Segmentation with Neural Networks; Deformable Models; Shape Constraints in Deformable Models; Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Models; Fully Automated Hybrid Segmentation of the Brain; Volumetric Segmentation; Partial Volume Segmentation with Voxel Histograms. -- III Quantification -- Two-dimensional Shape and Texture Quantification; Texture Analysis in Three Dimensions as a Cue to Medical Diagnosis; Computational Neuroanatomy Using Shape Transformation; Morphometry of Arterial Trees and Microvascular Networks; Image-Based Computational Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System; Three-Dimensional Bone Angle Quantification; Database Selection and Feature Extraction for Neural Networks; Quantitative Image Analysis for Estimation of Breast Cancer Risk; Classification of Breast Lesions in Mammograms; Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac Function; Image Processing and Analysis in Tagged Cardiac MRI; Image Interpolation and Resampling. -- IV Registration -- The Physical Basis of Spatial Distortions in Magnetic Resonance Images; Physical and Biological Bases of Spatial Distortiobns in Positron Emission Tomography Images; Biological Underpinnings of Anatomic Consistency and Variability in the Human Brain; Spatial Transformation Models; Validation of Registration Accuracy; Landmark-based Registration using Features Identified Through Differential Geometry; Registration of Contours using Chamfer Matching; Within-Modality Registration using Intensity-Based Cost Functions; Across-Modality Registration using Intensity-Based Cost Functions; Talairach Space as a Tool for Intersubject Standardization in the Brain; Warping Strategies for Intersubject Registration; Optimizing the Resampling of Registered Images; Clinical Applications of Image Registration; Registration for Image-Guided Surgery; Image Registration and the Construction of Multidimensional Brain Atlases. -- V Visualization -- Visualization Pathways in Biomedicine; Three-Dimensional Visualization in Medicine and Biology; Volume Visualization in Medicine; Fast Isosurface Extraction Methods for Large Image Data Sets; Morphometric Methods for Virtual Endoscopy. -- VI Compression Storage and Communication -- Fundamentals and Standards of Compression and Communication; Medical Image Archive and Retrieval; Image Standardization in PACS; Quality Evaluation for Compressed Medical Images: Fundamentals; Quality Evaluation for Compressed Medical Images: Diagnostic Accuracy; Quality Evaluation for Compressed Medical Images: Statistical Issues; Three-Dimensional Image Compression with Wavelet Transforms; Medical Image Processing and Analysis Software. -- Index.

pt. I. Enhancement -- pt. II. Segmentation -- pt. III. Quantification -- pt. IV. Registration -- pt. V. Visualization -- pt. VI. Compression storage and communication.