Preface -- 1. An overview of image and video segmentation in the last 40 / Yu-Jin Zhang -- 2. Optimal image segmentation methods based on energy minimization / Francisco Escolano, Miguel A. Lozano -- 3. Variational problems in image segmentation and g-convergence methods / Giovanni Bellettini, Riccardo March -- 4. A graph-based image segmentation algorithm using heirarchical social metaheuristic / Abraham Duarte, Angel Sanchez, Felipe Fernandez, Antonio S. Montemayor -- 5. Modeling complex dynamic systems for image segmentation / Liang Zhao -- 6. Joint space-time-range mean shift-based image and video segmentation / Irene Yu-Hua Gu, Vasile Gui -- 7. Fast automatic video object segmentation for content-based applications / Ee Ping Ong, Weisi Lin, Bee June Tye, Minoru Etoh -- 8. A fully automated active shape model for segmentation and tracking of unknown objects in a cluttered environment / Besma Rouai-Abidi, Sangkyu Kang, Mongi Abidi -- 9. Video shot boundary detection and scene segmentation / Hong Lu, Zhenyan Li, Yap-Peng Tan, Xiangyang Xue -- 10. Color image segmentation in both feature and image spaces / Shengyang Dai, Yu-Jin Zhang -- 11. Optimizing texture primitive description, analysis, segmentation, and classification using variography / Assia Kourgli, Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa -- 12. Methods and applications for segmenting 3D medical image data / Hong Shen.

13. Parallel segmentation of multi-channel images using multi-dimensional mathematical morphology / Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza, David Valencia, Pablo Martinez -- 14. Fuzzy clustering-based approaches in automatic lip segmentation from color images / Shilin Wang, Wing Hong Lau, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Shu Hung Leung -- 15. Mathematical morphology-based automatic restoration and segmentation for degraded machine-printed character images / Shigueo Nomura, Keiji Yamanaka, Osamu Katai, Hiroshi Kawakami, Takayuki Shiose -- 16. Segmentation in food images / Domingo Mery, Franco Pedreschi -- 17. Segmentation via thresholding methodologies by using measure of fuzziness towards blind navigation / Farrah Wong, R. Nagarajan, Sazali Yaacob -- 18. Unsupervised and supervised image segmentation evaluation / Christophe Rosenberger, Sébastien Chabrier, Hélène Laurent, Bruno Emile -- 19. Objective evalutation of video segmentation quality / Paulo Lobato Correia, Fernando Pereira -- 20. A summary of recent progresses for segmentation evaluation / Yu-Jin Zhang.