Meet the editor

Paulo E. Ambrósio has a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FMRP/USP), Brazil. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Exact and Technological Sciences, State University of Santa Cruz (UESC); vice-director of the Center for Radiation Sciences and Technology (CPqCTR/UESC); and is a member of the Special Committee on Computing Applied to Health,

Brazilian Computer Society. His research interests include applied computing, with emphasis on health and biology, working mainly with pattern recognition, medical imaging, and computational modeling.

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and Biomedical Engineering Area

*by Saúl Manuel Domínguez Nicolás*

*by Edgardo Comas and Adrián Stácul*

for the High Efficiency Video Coding

*and Fatma Ezahra Sayadi*

Face Recognition

*by Nupur Karmaker*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 97**

Weighted Module Linear Regression Classifications for Partially-Occluded

Digital Image Processing and Its Application for Medical Physics

Binarization Based on Maximum and Average Gray Values

Object Recognition and Tracking Using the Particle Estimator

*by Randa Khemiri, Soulef Bouaafia, Asma Bahba, Maha Nasr* 

*by Wei-Jong Yang, Cheng-Yu Lo, Pau-Choo Chung and Jar Ferr Yang*

Diffuse Optical Tomography System in Soft Tissue Tumor Detection *by Umamaheswari Kumarasamy, G.V. Shrichandran and A. Vedanth Srivatson*

Performance Analysis of OpenCL and CUDA Programming Models
