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Guest Editorial: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

The 16th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) was hosted in Swansea University in July 2012. MIUA is the principal UK forum for communicating research progress within the community interested in image analysis applied to medicine and related biological science. It is a single-track conference with oral and poster presentations. Authors were asked to submit 6-page techni...

Guest Editorial: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

The Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) conference series which began in Oxford in 1997 has become the main UK meeting for discussion and dissemination of research progress in image analysis applied to medicine and the biological sciences. In July 2008 we had the pleasure of hosting the 12th MIUA at the University of Dundee. The conference programme included fifty-one full papers fr...

Guest Editorial: Reflections on Medical Physics Training

The process of tightening qualifications to sit for ABR certification exams in subspecialties of medical physics is reaching the end of its arc. Predictably, this has sparked renewed hue and cry from individuals who would prefer to be offered lucrative careers without being held to those higher standards, as evidenced by a recent discussion thread on the electronic networking site LinkedIn. I o...

Guest Editorial: 3-D Image Analysis and Modelling

I N the recent days, Three-dimensional (3-D) images are widely used for a lot of applications, and recent advances in computer performances have extremely extended the range of applicability. This vitality is witnessed by the increasing number of papers presented in past conferences and by the number of research projects related to 3-D images. Three-dimensional data are inherently more informat...

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Medical Imaging and Image Computing in Computational Physiology