Clinical Applications -- Melanoma Recognition Using Representative and Discriminative Kernel Classifiers -- Detection of Connective Tissue Disorders from 3D Aortic MR Images Using Independent Component Analysis -- Comparing Ensembles of Learners: Detecting Prostate Cancer from High Resolution MRI -- Accurate Measurement of Cartilage Morphology Using a 3D Laser Scanner -- Image Registration -- Quantification of Growth and Motion Using Non-rigid Registration -- Image Registration Accuracy Estimation Without Ground Truth Using Bootstrap -- SIFT and Shape Context for Feature-Based Nonlinear Registration of Thoracic CT Images -- Consistent and Elastic Registration of Histological Sections Using Vector-Spline Regularization -- Image Segmentation and Analysis -- Comparative Analysis of Kernel Methods for Statistical Shape Learning -- Segmentation of Dynamic Emission Tomography Data in Projection Space -- A Framework for Unsupervised Segmentation of Multi-modal Medical Images -- Poster Session -- An Integrated Algorithm for MRI Brain Images Segmentation -- Spatial Intensity Correction of Fluorescent Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Images -- Quasi-conformal Flat Representation of Triangulated Surfaces for Computerized Tomography -- Bony Structure Suppression in Chest Radiographs -- A Minimally-Interactive Watershed Algorithm Designed for Efficient CTA Bone Removal -- Automatic Reconstruction of Dendrite Morphology from Optical Section Stacks -- Modeling the Activity Pattern of the Constellation of Cardiac Chambers in Echocardiogram Videos -- A Study on the Influence of Image Dynamics and Noise on the JPEG 2000 Compression Performance for Medical Images -- Fast Segmentation of the Mitral Valve Leaflet in Echocardiography -- Three Dimensional Tissue Classifications in MR Brain Images -- 3-D Ultrasound Probe Calibration for Computer-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the international workshop Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2006, held in Graz, Austria in May 2006 as a satellite event of the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, EECV 2006. The 10 revised full papers and 11 revised poster papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on clinical applications, image registration, image segmentation and analysis, and the poster session.