This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Joint Conference Computer Vision
Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine CVRMed and Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted
Surgery MRCAS held in Grenoble France in March 1997. The volume presents 76 regular revised
papers and 16 clinical papers selected from a total of 161 submitted full papers. The volume
offers highly innovative and promising research results in computer-assisted medicine and
medical informatics. Among the areas covered are medical imaging virtual reality medical
robotics and computer-integrated therapy and surgery. The book is of relevance to clinicians
medical engineers and computer scientists.
