Title page -- Preface -- Contents -- Interactive Haptic Modeling of Colon and Colonoscope -- Computer-Based Simulator for Catheter Insertion Training -- Distributed Interactive Virtual Environments for Collaborative Experiential Learning and Training Independent of Distance over Internet2 -- Real time estimation of physical activity and physiological performance reserves of players during a game of soccer -- The Korydallos, Greece, Prisons Telemedicine System Experience: Why Technology Alone is Not a Sufficient Condition -- A clinical and educational telemedicine link between Bulgaria and Greece -- Hybrid-Reality: Collaborative Biomedical Data Exploration Exploiting 2-D and 3-D Correspondence -- Manipulation of Volume Data to Manufacture Vascular eplicas -- A 3D Interactive Multimodal Viewer as Data Mining Tool for the Visible Human Dataset Color Image Histograms -- An Active Constraint Environment for Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: early experience of a cutting operation -- Quantifying Surgeon Grasping Mechanics in Laparoscopy Using the Blue DRAGON System -- Reconstruction and Enhancement in Monocular Laparoscopic Imagery -- Patient Specific Dynamic Geometric Models From Sequential Volumetric Time Series Image Data -- GiPSi: An Open Source/Open Architecture Software Development Framework for Surgical Simulation -- Real-Time Volume Haptic Rendering of Non-linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Soft Tissue through Dynamic Atomic Unit Approach -- Study of Soft Tissue Cutting Forces and Cutting Speeds -- Level Set Based Auto Segmentation of the Tagged Left Ventricle MR Images -- Interactive Cutting Simulation with Adaptive Refinements using Digital Logic Design Analogy -- A One Degree of Freedom Haptic System to Investigate Issues in Human Perception with Particular Application to Probing Tissue