**Meet the editor**

Dr Vikas Chaudhary is an Indian Radiologist who has published in many national and international publications. His other achievements include authoring chapters in other books, and reviewing articles for reputed national and international indexed journals. He was awarded Shri. M.L. Garg Memorial Medal for Best Senior Resident in Radiology at Lady Hardinge Medical

College, New Delhi in 2009-2010, and was also awarded second prize for best review article with his contribution "Imaging of the Pancreas: Recent advances", during the Indian Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism Annual Awards 2011, organised by the Endocrine Society of India at Pune, India. He has been nominated as a specialist member (subject expert) in the recruitment board for appointment of specialists, senior residents and radiographers in various ESIC Model Hospitals, and as an inspecting officer for various radiological equipments. He has received his MBBS and MD (Radiodiagnosis) from reputed Government Medical Colleges of India. During his undergraduation (MBBS), he received a Certificate of Merit in Microbiology.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Automatic Vector Seeded Region Growing** 

Chuin-Mu Wang and Ruey-Maw Chen

Chapter 2 **Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders 11** 

Chapter 3 **Neural Mechanisms for Dual-Process Reasoning: Evidence from the Belief-Bias Effect 35** 

Matteo Caffini, Davide Contini, Rebecca Re,

**Cliques in Brain Activation Patterns 101** 

Angelica Staniloiu, Irina Vitcu and Hans J. Markowitsch

Takeo Tsujii and Kaoru Sakatani

Chapter 4 **Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy** 

Chapter 5 **Intraoperative Human Functional Brain** 

Sameer A. Sheth, Vijay Yanamadala

Talma Hendler and Eshel Ben-Jacob

Chapter 7 **Hyperpolarized Xenon Brain MRI 127** 

Rong Xu, Limin Luo and Jun Ohya

and Lorenzo Spinelli

and Emad N. Eskandar

Yael Jacob, David Papo,

Chapter 8 **Segmentation of Brain MRI 143** 

Chapter 6 **Functional Holography and** 

Xin Zhou

**for Parenchyma Classification in Brain MRI 1** 

**and Diffuse Optical Tomography in Neuroscience 51** 

Lucia M. Zucchelli, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Alessandro Torricelli

**Mapping Using Optical Intrinsic Signal Imaging 77** 
