A brief definition of regenerative medicine
Multimedia lives with images; medical images are born from digital imaging. A physician’s
multimedia workstation cannot exist without tools for manipulating images, performing
measurements and, generally speaking, extracting and collecting pieces of information
from the available data.
Image analysis and computer vision constitute a wide and rapidly evolving field. This paper
is intended as an introductory document for medical imaging researchers and practitioners
wishing an overview of recent developments and trends. The major lines of activities in the
domain are presented, under the common framework of a processing pipeline. After a pres-
entation of the various stages of this pipeline, current subjects of research are indicated....
