Medical Image Analysis and Informatics

Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Physics. He is a Fellow of IEEE: Arianna Menattini, is in the Dept. of Electronic Engineering, at the Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata and is an active researcher in medical image analysis; Marcello Salmeri is an Associate Professor at the Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata; Rangaraj M. Rangayyan is an IEEE Fellow, Fellow AIMBE and SPIE. He ia extremely active in Computer Aided Diagnostic analysis and therapies for a number of different maladies.

"…a good addition to the shelves of the post graduate students and researchers working in the application of information and communication technology for the betterment of healthcare."—Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India"… provides chapters written by experts on a wide variety of applications of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). Each chapter provides an excellent insight into the topic covered. Thus, the book gives readers an excellent overview of the field, unmet needs and avenues for further research."—Aaron Fenster, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada"This book provides excellent coverage of the state-of-the-art computer-aided diagnosis and therapy in medical imaging. The editors did an amazing job in arranging chapters to provide a status quo of these fast-developing fields. Each chapter is written by experts in the fields in a clear, readable manner without sacrificing the scientific rigor. I am confident that everyone who reads the book will gain a solid knowledge about the subject matter presented in the chapters. This is a must-read book for researchers and clinicians who are working on or interested in these rapidly developing fields of computer-aided diagnosis and therapy in medical imaging."—Hiro Yoshida, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

• Foreword on CAD: Its Past, Present, and FuturePrefaceAcknowledgment Contributors1 Segmentation and Characterization of White Matter Lesions in FLAIR Magnetic Resonance Imaging2 Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Retinal Fundus Images3 Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Retinal Fundus Images4 Automated OCT Segmentation for Images with DME5 Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Dental Images6 CAD Tool and Telemedicine for Burns7 CAD of Cardiovascular Diseases8 Realistic Lesion Insertion for Medical Data Augmentation9 Diffuse Lung Diseases (Emphysema, Airway and Interstitial Lung Diseases)10 Computerized Detection of Bilateral Asymmetry11 Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer with Tomosynthesis Imaging12 Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Spinal Abnormalities13 CAD of GI Diseases with Capsule Endoscopy14 Texture-Based Computer-Aided Classification of Focal Liver Diseases using Ultrasound Images15 CAD of Dermatological Ulcers (Computational Aspects of CAD for Image Analysis of Foot and Leg Dermatological Lesions)16 In Vivo Bone Imaging with Micro-Computed Tomography17 Augmented Statistical Shape Modeling for Orthopedic Surgery andRehabilitation 18 Disease-Inspired Feature Design for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Digital Pathology Images19 Medical Microwave Imaging and Analysis20 Making Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval Systems for Computer-Aided Diagnosis: From Theory to Application21 Health Informatics for Research Applications of CADConcluding RemarksIndex