Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes algorithms, applications, and ideas on achieving reliability of results and clinical evaluation of the techniques covered. Preim and Botha illustrate visualization techniques from research, but also cover the information required to solve practical clinical problems. They base the book on several years of combined teaching and research experience. This new edition includes six new chapters on treatment planning, guidance and training; an updated appendix on software support for visual computing for medicine; and a new global structure that better classifies and explains the major lines of work in the field. - Complete guide to visual computing in medicine, fully revamped and updated with new developments in the field - Illustrated in full color - Includes a companion website offering additional content for professors, source code, algorithms, tutorials, videos, exercises, lessons, and more

Bernhard Preim is Professor of Visualization in the Computer Science Department of the U of Magdeburg. He has given many tutorials on medical visualization at IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, EuroVis and Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery. He was founder of the German "Visual Computing in Medicine" group which has held two yearly workshops since 2003. Together with Charl Botha (Delft), he initiated the Eurographics Workshop series on "Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine . Bernhard now heads the VCBM steering committee. Currently, Bernhard and Charl serve as editors for a special issue on "Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine in the journal "Computers and Graphics". Recently, Bernhard Preim was invited to serve as associate editor of the premium journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Bernhard is regularly Visiting Professor at Fraunhofer MEVIS and heads the scientific advisory board of ICCAS (Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery). In the German Society for Computer-Assisted Surgery he has been board member since 2007 and first Vice-President since 2009.

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes algorithms, applications, and ideas on achieving reliability of results and clinical evaluation of the techniques covered. Preim and Botha illustrate visualization techniques from research, but also cover the information required to solve practical clinical problems. They base the book on several years of combined teaching and research experience. This new edition includes six new chapters on treatment planning, guidance and training; an updated appendix on software support for visual computing for medicine; and a new global structure that better classifies and explains the major lines of work in the field.

• Complete guide to visual computing in medicine, fully revamped and updated with new developments in the field
• Illustrated in full color
• Includes a companion website offering additional content for professors, source code, algorithms, tutorials, videos, exercises, lessons, and more

1. Introduction

Part I: Acquisition, Analysis, and Interpretation of Medical Volume Data 2. Acquisition of Medical Image Data 3. An Introduction to Medical Visualization in Clinical Practice 4. Image Analysis for Medical Visualization 5. Human-Computer Interaction for Medical Visualization

Part II: Visualization and Exploration of Medical Volume Data 6. Surface Rendering 7. Direct Volume Visualization 8. Advanced Direct Volume Visualization 9. Volume Interaction 10. Labeling and Measurements in Medical Visualization

Part III: Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques 11. Visualization of Vascular Structures 12. Illustrative Medical Visualization 13. Virtual Endoscopy 14. Projections and Reformations ONLINE

Part IV: Visualization of High-Dimensional Medical Image DataVisualization of Brain Connectivity 15. Visual Exploration and Analysis of Perfusion Data - ONLINE

Part V: Treatment planning, guidance and training Computer-Assisted Surgery 16. Image-Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality 17. Visual Exploration of Simulated and Measured Flow Data 18. Visual Computing for ENT Surgery Planning - ONLINE 19. Computer-Assisted Medical Education - ONLINE 20. Outlook - ONLINE