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In the preface of the book the editor starts with expressing the hope that this book is not yet another textbook on biomedical image processing. Instead the authors want to provide a ‘suitable’ textbook on image processing (with suitable defined as ‘comprehensive but short, up-to-date but essential and detailed but illustrative’) that covers all of the special needs in biology and medicine. The contents of the book are based on a tutorial regularly offered at the International SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).