**Meet the editor**

Dr. Sebro completed his residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and fellowship training in musculoskeletal imaging and intervention at Massachusetts General Hospital. His Ph.D. in Biostatistics with a concentration in statistical genetics and theoretical statistics is from Harvard University. He is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Pre-Doctoral Fellow and a current Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) Research Scholar. Currently, his role at Penn Medicine includes the Director of Bone and Soft tissue Imaging and Intervention and is part of the Sarcoma Leadership Committee for the University of Pennsylvania Health System Abramson Cancer Center. Dr. Sebro's current research as a translational image-focused researcher centers on using novel PET tracers for prognosis and evaluation of response to therapy for bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Dr. Sebro has also been involved in several projects in musculoskeletal imaging of the knees, shoulder, and hips.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **A High-Performance System Architecture for**

Mahmudur Rahman and Nuh Alpaslan

Edel Mendoza and Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh

Chapter 3 **Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions 33**

Tassadaq Hussain, Amna Haider, Muhammad Shafique and

**Based on Invariant Feature Extraction, Classification, and Retrieval of Masses of Mammographic Images 11**

Chapter 2 **A Decision Support System (DSS) for Breast Cancer Detection**

Abdelmoneim Sulieman and Mohammed Alkhorayef

Chapter 5 **State-Of-The-Art X-Ray Digital Tomosynthesis Imaging 67**

**Medical Imaging 1**

Chapter 4 **Liver Directed Therapies 51**

Tsutomu Gomi

Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed
