Table of contents : Title Page Copyright Page Book Series Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers Table of Contents Detailed Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgment Section 1: Medical Image Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis Chapter 1: Biomedical Image Processing Software Development for Shoulder Arthroplasty Chapter 2: Digital Image Analysis in Clinical and Experimental Pathology Section 2: Medical Image Extraction, Classification, and Restoration in Computer-Aided Diagnosis Chapter 3: Medical Image Classification Chapter 4: The Fundamentals of Medical Image Restoration Chapter 5: Optimal Feature Selection and Extraction for Eye Disease Diagnosis Section 3: Medical Image Segmentation for Improved Clinical Diagnosis Chapter 6: Certain Investigation Titles on the Segmentation of Colon and Removal of Opacified Fluid for Virtual Colonoscopy Section 4: Study of Compression and Denoising in Clinical Diagnosis Chapter 7: Medical Data Storage and Compression Chapter 8: Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform-Based Effective Denoising of Medical Images Section 5: Study on Fundamentals in Image Processing and Its Advancements Chapter 9: The Fundamentals of Biomedical Image Processing Chapter 10: A Survey on Female Breast Cancer Section 6: Medical Image Registration and Retrieval for Improved Clinical Diagnosis Chapter 11: A Comparative Study of Medical Image Retrieval Using Distance, Transform, Texture, and Shape Chapter 12: Medical Image Registration in Clinical Diagnosis Compilation of References Index