This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed prost-workshop proceedings of the International
Workshop on Medical Computer Vision: Algorithms for Big Data MCS 2015 held in Munich Germany
in October 2015 held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Medical Image
Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2015. The workshop shows well the current
trends and tendencies in medical computer vision and how the techniques can be used in clinical
work and on large data sets. It is organized in the following sections: predicting disease
atlas exploitation and avoidance machine learning based analyses advanced methods for image
analysis poster sessions. The 10 full 5 short 1 invited papers and one overview paper
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.
