This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third
International Workshop on Medical Computer Vision MCV 2013 held in Nagoya Japan in
September 2013 in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing
and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2013. The 7 revised full papers and 12 poster papers
presented were selected from 25 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections on
registration and visualization segmentation detection and localization and features and
retrieval. In addition the volume contains two invited papers describing segmentation task and
data set of the VISCERAL benchmark challenge.