chapter 1 Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer -- chapter 2 Medical-Image Processing and Analysis for CAD Systems -- chapter 3 Texture and Morphological Analysis of Ultrasound Images of the Carotid Plaque for the Assessment of Stroke -- chapter 4 Biomedical-lmage Classification Methods and Techniques -- chapter 5 Texture Characterization Using Autoregressive Models with Application to Medical Imaging -- chapter 6 Locally Adaptive Wavelet Contrast Enhancement -- chapter 7 Three-Dimensional Multiscale Watershed Segmentation of MR Images -- chapter 8 A MRF-Based Approach for the Measurement of Skin Thickness in Mammography -- chapter 9 Landmark-Based Registration of Medical-Image Data -- chapter 10 Graph-Based Analysis of Amino Acid Sequences -- chapter 11 Estimation of Human Cortical Connectivity with Multimodal Integration of fMRI and High-Resolution EEG -- chapter 12 Evaluation Strategies for Medical-Image Analysis and Processing Methodologies.