This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Visualization in Biomedical Computing, VBC '96, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 1996.
The 73 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 232 submissions. The book reports the state of the art in the field of computer based visualization in medicine and biology. The papers are organized in sections on visualization; image processing; segmentation; registration; brain: description of shape; brain: characterization of pathology; brain: visualization of function; simulation of surgery...

The ?fth international Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2002) was held in Tokyo from September 25th to 28th, 2002. This was the ?rst time that the conference was held in Asia since its foundation in 1998. The objective of the conference is to o?er clinicians and scientists the opportunity to collaboratively create and explore the new medical ?eld. Speci?cally, MICCAI o?ers a forum for the discussion of the state ofartincomputer-assistedinterventions, medicalrobotics, andimageprocessing among experts from multi-disciplinary professions, including...