This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2015, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 2015. The 45 revised full papers and one Young Researchers Forum presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion and reconstruction; mathematical foundations and image processing; biomedical image analysis and applications; human pose analysis; recognition and scene und...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Breast Imaging, IWDM 2016, held in Malmö, Sweden, in June 2016.The 35 revised full papers and 50 revised poster papers presented together with 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on screening; CAD; mammography, tomosynthesis, and breast CT; novel technology; density assessment and tissue analysis; dose and classifica...

This book presents basic ideas of machine learning in a way that is easy to understand, by providing hands-on practical advice, using simple examples, and motivating students with discussions of interesting applications. The main topics include Bayesian classifiers, nearest-neighbor classifiers, linear and polynomial classifiers, decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. Later chapters show how to combine these simple tools by way of “boosting,” how to exploit them in m...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2016, held in Hannover, Germany, in September 2016.The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing, learning, optimization, segmentation, applications, image analysis, motion and tracking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop and Challenge on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging, CSI 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015. The 9 workshop papers and 6 challenge contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover all major aspects related to spine imaging.

The 6th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2016, was held in Bern, Switzerland during August 2016.The aim of MIAR is to bring together researchers in computer vision, graphics, robotics, and medical imaging to present the state-of-the-art developments in this ever-growing research area in topics such as:Medical Image Formation, Analysis and InterpretationAugmented Reality, Visualization and Simulation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Images, Patch-MI 2016, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2016, in Athens, Greece, in October 2016.The 17 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.The main aim of the Patch-MI 2016 workshop is to promote methodological advances within the medical imaging field, with various applications in ima...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Patch-based Techniques in Medical Images, Patch-MI 2015, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The topics covered are such as image segmentation of anatomical structures or lesions; image enhancement; computer-aided prognostic ...

The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9916 and 9917, constitute the proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2016, held in Xi`an, China, in September 2016.The total of 128 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions.The focus of the conference was as follows in multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services.

The 20 research papers in this volume demonstrate novel models and concepts in animation and graphics simulation. Special emphasis is given on innovative approaches to Modelling Human Motion, Models of Collision Detection and Perception, Facial Animation and Communication, Specific Animation Models, Realistic Rendering for Animation, and Behavioral Animation.

These Proceedings of the 2015 MICCAI Workshop “Computational Diffusion MRI” offer a snapshot of the current state of the art on a broad range of topics within the highly active and growing field of diffusion MRI. The topics vary from fundamental theoretical work on mathematical modeling, to the development and evaluation of robust algorithms, new computational methods applied to diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data, and applications in neuroscientific studies and clinical practice.

The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416 submissions. They deal with big data, neural networks, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and graphics, object detection, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning,...