Preface.- Clinical Imaging and Applications.- Imaging of the Spine: A Medical and Physical Perspective, by Joseph Burns.- Arthritis of the Spine, by Runsheng Wang, Michael Ward.- Osteoporosis, by Thomas Baum et al..- Image Processing.- Computer aided detection of bone metastases in the thoracolumbar spine, by Jianhua Yao.- Quantitative Monitoring of Bone Formation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Using Computed Tomography, by Sovira Tan.- Three-dimensional Spine Reconstruction from Radiographs, by Samuel Kadoury.- Vertebral Column Localization, Segmentation, and Labeling, by V. Chaudhary.- Automated Determination of the Spine-Based Coordinate System for an Efficient Cross-Sectional Visualization of 3D Spine Images, by Tomaz Vrtovec.- Cross-Modality Vertebrae Localization and Labeling using Learning-Based Approaches, by Yiqiang Zhan, Bing Jian, Maneesh Dewan, Xiang Sean Zhou.- Articulated Statistical Shape Models of the Spine, by J. Boisvert.- Reconstruction of 3D Vertebral Model from A Single 2D Lateral Fluoroscopic Image, by Guoyan Zheng and Lutz-P. Nolte.- Graphical Model-based Vertebral Identification from X-ray Images, by Xiao Dong and Guoyan Zheng.- Model-Based Segmentation, Reconstruction and Analysis of the Vertebral Body from Spinal CT, by Melih Aslan, Ahmed Shalaby, Asem Ali, and Aly A. Farag.- Image Guided Spine Intervention.- Toward Virtual Modeling and Templating for Enhanced Spine Surgery Planning, by Cristian Linte, David Holmes.- Automated Determination of the Spine-Based Coordinate System for an Efficient Cross-Sectional Visualization of 3D Spine Images, by Tamas Ungi, Andras Lasso, Gabor Fitchinger.- Robotic Assistance and Intervention in Spine Surgery, by Rajesh Kumar.- Index.
