Image Acquisition and Analysis of Hazardous Biological Material in Air -- Geo-Thresholding for Segmentation of Fluorescent Microscopic Cell Images -- Image Segmentation by Non-topological Erosion and Topological Expansion -- Variability Analysis of the Large-Scale Structure of Interphase Chromatin Fiber Based on Statistical Shape Theory -- Image Segmentation Using Histogram Fitting and Spatial Information -- Statistical Analysis of Microspectroscopy Signals for Algae Classification and Phylogenetic Comparison -- Semi-automatic Semantic Tagging of 3D Images from Pancreas Cells -- Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Mixed Oxide-Films and Examinations of Their Piezoelectricity by Ultrasonic Piezo-Mode Imaging -- A Novel Image Feature for Nuclear-Phase Classification in High Content Screening -- Object Detection in Watershed Partitioned Gray-Level Images -- Finding Cells, Finding Molecules, Finding Patterns -- Automatic Fuzzy-neural Based Segmentation of Microscopic Cell Images -- Real-Time Measurement and Analysis of Translational and Rotational Speeds of Moving Objects in Microscope Fields -- A General Approach to Shape Characterization for Biomedical Problems -- Statistical Analysis of Electrophoresis Time Series for Improving Basecalling in DNA Sequencing -- Semi-automated Mapping of Cell Nuclei in 3D-Stacks from Optical-Sectioning Microscopy -- Statistical Analysis of Myocyte Orientations of the Left Ventricular Myocardium -- Automatic Quality Control of Cereals in Particular Wheat-Subtask Detection of Hygiene-Relevant Parameters.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry, MDA 2006 and 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany.. The topics include techniques and developments of signal and image producing procedures, object matching and object tracking in microscopic and video microscopic images, 1D, 2D and 3D shape analysis, description and feature extraction of texture, structure and location, image segmentation algorithms, parallelization of image analysis and semantic tagging of images from life science applications.