Computational Anatomy and Computational Physiology for Medical Image Analysis -- Analyzing Anatomical Structures: Leveraging Multiple Sources of Knowledge -- Advances on Medical Imaging and Computing -- Tracking of Migrating and Proliferating Cells in Phase-Contrast Microscopy Imagery for Tissue Engineering -- Cardiology Meets Image Analysis: Just an Application or Can Image Analysis Usefully Impact Cardiology Practice? -- Computer Vision Algorithms for Retinal Image Analysis: Current Results and Future Directions -- 3D Statistical Shape Models to Embed Spatial Relationship Information -- A Generalized Level Set Formulation of the Mumford-Shah Functional with Shape Prior for Medical Image Segmentation -- A Hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach for Thickness, Correspondence, and Gridding of Annular Tissues -- A Hybrid Framework for Image Segmentation Using Probabilistic Integration of Heterogeneous Constraints -- A Learning Framework for the Automatic and Accurate Segmentation of Cardiac Tagged MRI Images -- A Local Adaptive Algorithm for Microaneurysms Detection in Digital Fundus Images -- A New Coarse-to-Fine Framework for 3D Brain MR Image Registration -- A New Vision Approach for Local Spectrum Features in Cervical Images via 2D Method of Geometric Restriction in Frequency Domain -- Active Contours Under Topology Control Genus Preserving Level Sets -- A Novel Multifaceted Virtual Craniofacial Surgery Scheme Using Computer Vision -- A Novel Unsupervised Segmentation Method for MR Brain Images Based on Fuzzy Methods -- A Pattern Classification Approach to Aorta Calcium Scoring in Radiographs -- A Topologically Faithful, Tissue-Guided, Spatially Varying Meshing Strategy for Computing Patient-Specific Head Models for Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery Simulation -- Applying Prior Knowledge in the Segmentation of 3D Complex Anatomic Structures -- Automatic Extraction of Femur Contours from Hip X-Ray Images -- Automatic Landmarking of 2D Medical Shapes Using the Growing Neural Gas Network -- Biomedical Image Classification with Random Subwindows and Decision Trees -- Combining Binary Classifiers for Automatic Cartilage Segmentation in Knee MRI -- Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for Cervical Cancer Screening and Diagnosis: A New System Design in Medical Image Processing -- Constrained Surface Evolutions for Prostate and Bladder Segmentation in CT Images -- Curvilinear Structure Based Mammographic Registration -- Deformable Registration for Generating Dissection Image of an Intestine from Annular Image Sequence -- Distance-Intensity for Image Registration -- Efficient Population Registration of 3D Data -- Efficient Symbolic Signatures for Classifying Craniosynostosis Skull Deformities -- Elastic Interaction Models for Active Contours and Surfaces -- Estimating Diameters of Pulmonary Nodules with Competition-Diffusion and Robust Ellipsoid Fit -- Fast 3D Brain Segmentation Using Dual-Front Active Contours with Optional User-Interaction -- Improved Motion Correction of fMRI Time-Series Corrupted with Major Head Movement Using Extended Motion-Corrected Independent Component Analysis -- Local or Global Minima: Flexible Dual-Front Active Contours -- Locally Switching Between Cost Functions in Iterative Non-rigid Registration -- Multi-modal Image Registration by Quantitative-Qualitative Measure of Mutual Information (Q-MI) -- Multi-scale Vessel Boundary Detection -- Non-rigid Registration for Colorectal Cancer MR Images -- Quantizing Calcification in the Lumbar Aorta on 2-D Lateral X-Ray Images -- Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Soft Tissue Based on Mass-Spring and Medial Representation -- Registration of 3D Angiographic and X-Ray Images Using Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling -- Registration of PET and MR Hand Volumes Using Bayesian Networks -- Segmentation and Volume Representation Based on Spheres for Non-rigid Registration -- Segmentation of 3D CT Volume Images Using a Single 2D Atlas -- Segmenting Brain Tumors with Conditional Random Fields and Support Vector Machines -- Segmenting Cardiopulmonary Images Using Manifold Learning with Level Sets -- Shape Based Segmentation of Anatomical Structures in Magnetic Resonance Images -- Simultaneous Segmentation and Motion Recovery in 3D Cardiac Image Analysis -- Spatial and Temporal Analysis for Optical Imaging Data Using CWT and tICA -- Stereo Matching and 3-D Reconstruction for Optic Disk Images -- Total Variation Based Iterative Image Reconstruction -- Voronoi-Based Segmentation of Cells on Image Manifolds -- Parcellating the Intra-splenium Based on the Traced Fiber from Tractography -- Motion Compensation and Plane Tracking for Kinematic MR-Imaging.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, CVBIA 2005, held in Beijing, China, in October 2005 within the scope of ICCV 20.