Introduction

The book presents just a small part of the huge body of knowledge which the authors use almost every day in their work on medical images [30–44, 54–61]. Not all the methods, algorithms and techniques presented in the book were developed by the authors themselves, but most them were applied to practical medical problems, some were improved and sometimes also devised in more than a decade of the authors' research on the processing, analyzing, classifying, recognizing and automatically interpreting medical images (and other data).