Includes bibliographical references and index.

Computer aided detection of colonic polyps on CT colonography / Jack Yao -- Preprocessing tools for computer aided cancer imaging systems / Artyom M. Grigoryan and Sos S. Agaian -- Multimodality imaging for tumor volume definition in radiation oncology / Issam El Naqa -- Nonlinear unsharp masking for enhancing suspicious regions in mammograms / Yicong Zhou, Sos Agaian, Karen Panetta, C. L. Philip Chen -- Skin lesion extraction based on distance histogram and color information / Yanliang Gu and Jinshan Tang -- Geometric incremental support vector machine for object detection from capsule endoscopy videos / Xiaohui Yuan, Balathasan Giritharan, Mohamed Abouelenien, Jianguo Liu, Xiaojing Yuan -- Automated melanomascreening and early detection / Xiaojing Yuan, Ning Situ, Xiaohui Yuan, George Zouridakis -- A complex wavelet-based feature extraction system for microcalcification detection in digital mammograms / Ping Zhang, Kwabena Agyepong -- Computer-aided prostate cancer diagnosis : principles, recent advances, and future prospective : a review / Clara Mosquera-Lopez, Sos Agaian, Alejandro Velez-Hoyos, and Ian Thompson -- Analysis of breast masses in mammograms using the fractal dimension and shape factors / Grazia Raguso, Antonietta Ancona, Loredana Chieppa, Samuela Labbate, Maria Luisa Pepe, Fabio Mangieri, Shantanu Banik, and Rangaraj M. Rangayyan -- Another step towards successful tomographic imaging in cancer : solution of the problem of image reconstruction / Artyom M. Grigoryan.