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Series Editor: Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou

Rutgers University

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Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering:

Signal Processing and Physiological Systems Modeling

Suresh R. Devasahayam

Models of the Visual System

Edited by George K. Hung and Kenneth J. Ciuffreda

PDE and Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery

Edited by Jasjit S. Suri and Swamy Laxminarayan

Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering:

Proceedings of the World Congress for Chinese Biomedical Engineers Edited by Ned H.C. Hwang and Savio L-Y. Woo

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis:

Volume I: Segmentation Models Part A

Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis:

Volume II: Segmentation Models Part B

Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis:

Volume III: Registration Models

Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

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Handbook of Biomedical

Image Analysis

Volume I: Segmentation Models Part A

Edited by

Jasjit S. Suri

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

David L. Wilson

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

and

Swamy Laxminarayan

Institute of Rural Health

Idaho State University

Pocatello, Idaho

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Contributors

Acknowledgments

This book is the result of collective endeavor of several noted engineering and computer scientists, mathematicians, medical doctors, physicists, and radiologists. The editors are indebted to all of their efforts and outstanding scientific contributions. The editors are particularly grateful to Drs. Petia Reveda, Alex Falco, Andrew Laine, David Breen, David Chopp, C. C. Lu, Gary Christensen, Dirk Vandermeulen, Aly Farag, Alejandro Frangi, Gilson Antonio Giraldi, Gabor Szekely, Pierre Hellier, Gabor Herman, Ardeshir Coshtasby, Jan Kybic, Jeff Weiss, Jean-Claude Klein, Majid Mirmehdi, Maria Kallergi, Yangming Zhu, Sunanda Mitra, Sameer Singh, Alessandro Sarti, Xioping Shen, Calvin R. Maurer, Jr., Yoshinobu Sato, Koon-Pong Wong, Avdhesh Sharma, Rakesh Sharma, and Chun Yuan and their team members for working with us so closely in meeting all of the deadlines of the book. They would like to express their appreciation to Kluwer Publishers for helping create this invitational handbook. They are particularly thankful to Aaron Johnson, the acquisition editor and Shoshana Sternlicht for their excellent coordination for the book at every stage.

Dr. Suri would like to thank Philips Medical Systems, Inc. for the MR datasets and encouragements during his experiments and research. Special thanks are due to Dr. Larry Kasuboski and Dr. Elaine Keeler at Philips Medical Systems, Inc. for their support and motivations. Thanks are also due to his past Ph.D. committee research professors, particularly Professors Linda Shapiro, Robert M. Haralick, Dean Lytle and Arun Somani, for their encouragements.

We extend our appreciations to Drs. Ajit Singh, Siemens Medical Systems, George Thoma, chief, Imaging Science Division at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Sameer Singh, University of Exeter, UK for his motivations. Special thanks go to the book series editor, Professor Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou for advising us on all aspects of the book.

We thank the IEEE Press, Academic Press, Springer-Verlag Publishers, and several medical and engineering journals publishers for permitting us to use some of the images previously published in these journals.

Finally, Jasjit Suri would like to thank my wife Malvika Suri for all the love and support she has showered over the years and to our baby Harman

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