Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the applications and their validation (how reliable are the results?), and the clinical evaluation of the applications (are the techniques useful?). It discusses visualization techniques from research literature as well as the compromises required to solve practical clinical problems. The book covers image acquisition, image analysis, and interaction techniques designed to explore and analyze the data. The final chapter shows how visualization is used for planning liver surgery, one of the most demanding surgical disciplines. The book is based on several years of the authors' teaching and research experience. Both authors have initiated and lead a variety of interdisciplinary projects involving computer scientists and medical doctors, primarily radiologists and surgeons. * A core field of visualization and graphics missing a dedicated book until now * Written by pioneers in the field and illustrated in full color * Covers theory as well as practice
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This is a major piece of work. It is a complete treatment of medical visualization and certain to become essential reading for any researcher, practitioner, and educator in the field. The book is well written and organized, with nice summaries at the end of each chapter that point to further reading. Some parts of the book have value beyond the field of medicine—for example, the sections on volume visualization, with their clear exposition of the different techniques, will be a useful reference in quite separate fields, such as computational fluid dynamics. The book also covers aspects of virtual reality in medicine, with its chapter on virtual endoscopy, an increasingly important application area. The authors are to be congratulated on a