The five-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2024, and of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2024, which were held during September 13-15, in Suzhou, China.The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 496 submissions. The LSMS and ICSEE international conference series aim to bring toget...

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2017, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in September 2017. The 208 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 625 submissions.The papers of this volume are organized in to...

One of the most important topics in soil science is understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and soil ecosystem function. This relies on techniques able to accurately identify different soil organisms and how they interact in the soil microbiome.Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils provides a comprehensive overview of the range of techniques used to assess microbial/faunal diversity and activity in soils and its impact on key ecological pr...

Covers the latest research on controlling pathogenic and non-pathogenic safety risks associated with pig meatComprehensive review of the factors affecting the different aspects of pig meat qualityAssesses ways of minimising the environmental impact of pig production such as reducing input use, emissions and waste

This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and their applications — fast-growing and promising research topics that have drawn a great deal of attention from researchers over the years. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on intelligence technologies such as neural networks, support vector machines, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation, and covers a wide range of applications from pattern recognition and system modeling, to intelligent cont...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Computer Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy, CARE 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.The 15 revised full papers were carefully selected out of 20 initial submissions and focus on recent technical advances associated with computer vision; graphics; robotics and medical imaging; external tracking systems; medical device control sys...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2017, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2017.The 73 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: machine learning in image recognition; machine learning for medical image computing; image enhancement and reconstruction; image segmentation; mo...

This book contains thirteen contributions from invited experts of international recognition addressing important issues in shape analysis in medical image analysis, including techniques for image segmentation, registration, modelling and classification and applications in biology, as well as in cardiac, brain, spine, chest, lung and clinical practice.This volume treats topics such as for example, anatomic and functional shape representation and matching; shape-based medical image s...

This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2013 workshop Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations (MWBIVPCS 2013). MWBIVPCS 2013 brought together researchers representing several fields, such as Biomechanics, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, Physics and Statistic.The contributions included in this book present and discuss new trends in those fields, using several methods and techniques, including the finite element method, similarity metri...

This comprehensive guide provides a uniquely practical, application-focused introduction to medical image analysis. This fully updated new edition has been enhanced with material on the latest developments in the field, whilst retaining the original focus on segmentation, classification and registration. Topics and features: presents learning objectives, exercises and concluding remarks in each chapter; describes a range of common imaging techniques, reconstruction techniques and image art...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Medical Computer Vision, MCV 2013, held in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2013 in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013. The 7 revised full papers and 12 poster papers presented were selected from 25 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections on registration and visualization, segme...

This book brings together 106 papers presented at the Joint Conferences of 2015 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering Technology (CSET2015) and 2015 International Conference on Medical Science and Biological Engineering (MSBE2015), which were held in Hong Kong on 30-31 May 2015.The joint conferences covered a wide range of research topics in new emerging technologies, ranging from computing to biomedical engineering. During the conferences, industry professionals, sc...