The three-volume set LNCS 8673 8674 and 8675 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI
2014 held in Boston MA USA in September 2014. Based on rigorous peer reviews the program
committee carefully selected 253 revised papers from 862 submissions for presentation in three
volumes. The 53 papers included in the third volume have been organized in the following
topical sections: shape and population analysis brain diffusion MRI and machine learning.
