Fundamental Enhancement Techniques; Adaptive Image Filtering; Enhancement by Multiscale Nonlinear Operators; Medical Image Enhancement with Hybrid Filters; Overview and Fundamentals of Medical Image Segmentation; Image Segmentation by Fuzzy Clustering: Methods and Issues; Segmentation with Neural Networks; Deformable Models; Shape Information in Deformable Models; Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Models; Fully Automated Hybrid Segmentation of the Brain; Unsupervised Tissue Classification; Partial Volume Segmentation with Voxel Histograms; Higher Order Statistics for Tissue Segmentation; Two-dimensional Shape and Texture Quantification; Texture Analysis in Three Dimensions for Tissue Characterization; Computational Neuroanatomy Using Shape Transformations; Tumor Growth Modeling in Oncological Image Analysis; Arterial Tree Morphometry; 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; Analysis of Cell Nuclear Features in Fluorescence Microscopy Images; Image Interpolation and Resampling; Physical Basis of Spatial Distortions in Magnetic Resonance Images; Physical and Biological Bases of Spatial Distortions in PET 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; Image Registration 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; Visualization Pathways in Biomedicine; Three-Dimensional Visualization in Medicine and Biology; Volume Visualization in Medicine; Fast Isosurface Extraction Methods for Large Image Data Sets; Computer Processing Methods for Virtual Endoscopy; Fundamentals and Standards of Compression and Communication; Medical Image Archive and Retrieval; Image Standardization in PACS; Imaging and Communication in Medical and Public Health Informatics; Dynamic Mammogram Retrieval from Web-Based Image Libraries; 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.