This critical volume focuses on the use of medical imaging, medical robotics, simulation, and information technology in surgery. It offers a road map for computational surgery success,  discusses the computer-assisted management of disease and surgery, and provides a rational for image processing and diagnostic. This book also presents some advances on image-driven intervention and robotics, as well as evaluates models and simulations for a broad spectrum of cancers as well as cardiovascular, neurological, and bone diseases. Training and performance analysis in surgery assisted by robotic systems is also covered.

Part 1: Introduction.- A Road Map for Computational Surgery: Challenges and Opportunities.- Part 2: Computer Assisted  Management of Disease and Surgery.- Plato's CAVE - A Multidimensional, Image Guided Radiation Therapy Cross Reality Platform with Advanced Surgical Planning, Simulation and Visualization Techniques using (native) DICOM Patient Image Studies.- Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) / Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) for Lung Cancer.- Computer Aided Management in Scoliosis Surgery.- Computational Modeling of Breast Conserving Surgery(BCS) starting from MRI Imaging.- Part  3: Image Processing and Diagnostics.- A statistical framework for biomarker analysis and HR-MAS 2D metabolite identification.- Hardware and performance considerations for computational medicine.- Image Driven Intervention and Robotic.- Cardiovascular Imaging, Navigation and Intervention-Hybrid Imaging and Therapeutics.- Towards automatic computer-aided planning in arthroplasty surgery by innovative methods for processing the bone surface models.- Robotic Assisted Lobectomy for Lung Cancer.- Robot interaction control in medicine and surgery: original results and open problems.- Control issues and possible solutions in robotized flexible endoscopy.- Beating Heart Surgery: Comparison of Two Active Compensation Solutions for Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.- Part 5: Modeling, Simulation and Experimental data.- 5.1 Cardiovascular.- Segmentation and Blood Flow Simulations of Patient-Specific Heart Data.- Assessment of Hemodynamics in DeBakey Type III Aortic Dissections For Planning Surgical Interventions and to Understand Post-Treatment Changes.- Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Plaque Formation in Arteries.- Rule Base Simulation of Vein Graft Remodeling.- Transport in nanoconfinement and within blood vessel wall .- 5.2 Cancer.- Some models for the prediction of tumor growth: general framework and applications to metastases in the lung.- Quantifying the Role of Anisotropic Invasion in Human Glioblastoma.- A mathematical model for growing metastases on oncologists's service.- 5.3 Epilepsy.- 5.4 Bone.- Calculation of the Discrete Effective Stiffness of Cancellous Bone by Direct Mechanical Simulations.- Part  6: Training and Performance Analysis.- Robotics as a Tool for Training and Assessment of Surgical Skill.- Workload and Performance Analyses with Haptic and Visually-Guided Training in a Dynamic Motor Skill Task.