With contributions from experts in China, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Biomedical Image Understanding: • Addresses motion tracking and knowledge-based systems, two areas which are not covered extensively elsewhere in a biomedical context • Describes important clinical applications, such as virtual colonoscopy, ocular disease diagnosis, and liver tumor detection • Contains twelve self-contained chapters, each with an introduction to basic concepts, principles, and methods, and a case study or application