Koushik Maharatna • Silvio Bonfiglio Editors 2014 The prevalence of aging population and chronic diseases worldwide has put the conventional model of healthcare delivery under serious strain. The productivity loss coupled with serious degradation of quality of life has resulted in significant socio-economic challenge that every national government is finding difficult to cope with.

Mary E. Haskett • Staci Perlman Beryl Ann Cowan Editors 2014 Current Practices and Future Directions As noted by the authors of chapters in this volume—leading researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers in the field of homelessness—the face of homelessness has changed dramatically in recent decades. Historically, individuals who struggled with homelessness were single males, often characterized by serious mental illness […]

Agota Szende • Bas Janssen Juan Cabase´s Editors 2014

Alexander Schmidt-Richberg 2014 Integration of Morphological and Physiological Knowledge Medical image registration and segmentation of 3D and 4D image data are challenging problems in the field of medical image computing. In this book, Alexander Schmidt- Richberg focuses on the integrated registration and segmentation of the lung and lung lobes in 3D and 4D CT image data.

Rajeev K. Bali · Lodewijk Bos Michael Christopher Gibbons · Simon R. Ibell Editors 2014 Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics Volume 4 The Twin Aims of this book were simple: to be clear and to be useful. Clear and useful not only to an academic audience, the typical target group of this sort of text, but […]

J.A. Magnuson • Paul C. Fu, Jr. Editors 2014 When the first edition of Public Health Informatics and Information Systems was published in 2002, Public Health Informatics was a relatively young field. That first edition was invaluable in helping to establish the field of study and provide structure for the emerging discipline.

Bernhard Gleich 2014 Bernhard Gleich and J¨urgen Weizenecker published their revolutionary idea for Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a novel medical imaging modality based on the direct interaction of iron-oxide nanoparticles with oscillating magnetic fields, in the Journal Nature in 2005. This was the starting point for a number of research groups around the world to implement the principle idea and to […]

Andrea J. Romero · Lisa M. Edwards Sheri Bauman · Marissa K. Ritter 2014 Resilience Research and Theory