Section 1. Medical image analysis for clinical diagnosis. Chapter 1. Biomedical image processing software development for shoulder arthroplasty ; Chapter 2. Digital image analysis in clinical and experimental pathology: an ode to microscopy -- Section 2. Medical image extraction, classification, and restoration in computer-aided diagnosis. Chapter 3. Medical image classification ; Chapter 4. The fundamentals of medical image restoration ; Chapter 5. Optimal feature selection and extraction for eye disease diagnosis -- Section 3. Medical image segmentation for improved clinical diagnosis. Chapter 6. Certain investigation titles on the segmentation of colon and removal of opacified fluid for virtual colonoscopy -- Section 4. Study of compression and denoising in clinical diagnosis. Chapter 7. Medical data storage and compression ; Chapter 8. Non-subsampled contourlet transform-based effective denoising of medical images: denoising of medical images using contourlet -- Section 5. Study on fundamentals in image processing and its advancements. Chapter 9. The fundamentals of biomedical image processing ; Chapter 10. A survey on female breast cancer: computer-aided diagnosis using digital breast tomosynthesis -- Section 6. Medical image registration and retrieval for improved clinical diagnosis. Chapter 11. A comparative study of medical image retrieval using distance, transform, texture, and shape ; Chapter 12. Medical image registration in clinical diagnosis: an introduction.