Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- BIOMEDICAL IMAGInG: INTEGRATION OF IMAGE ENGINEERING, BIOLOGY AND MEDICI, IE -- INDIRECT COVE-BEAM THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION -- ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIVIENS -- 3-D VISUALIZATION N MEDICINE: AN OVERVIEW -- USIVG DIFFEREVTIAL FEATURES TO SEGMENT SURFACES IN QUADRATIC PATCHES, IN 3-D VOLUME IMAGES -- TEXTURE ANALYSIS IN MEDICAL IMAGING -- THE ACTIVE ROLE OF 2-D AND 3-DIMAGES: SEMI-AUTOMATICSEGMENTATION -- VOLUMETRIC AVALYSIS AND SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR ANATONTICAL STRUCTURE MODELLING -- 3-D REPRESENTATION AND VISUALISATION OF THE HUMAN FACE AND APPLICATIONS TO SURGERY, MORPHOLOGY, ANTHROPOMETRICS AND FORENSIC SCIENCE -- COMPUTER INTEGRATED SURGERY AND THERAPY: STATE OF THE ART -- ON THE PROBLEM OF VALIDATING COMPUTER ASSISTED MEDICAL IMAGE INTERPRETATION -- Appendix: Basic Definitions in Differential Geometry -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author Index