Editor(s): Rasmus Larsen, Mads Nielsen, Jon Sporring Abstract The two-volume set LNCS 4190 and LNCS 4191 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2006, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2006. The program committee carefully selected 39 revised full papers and 193 revised poster papers from 578 submissions for presentation in two volumes, based on a rigorous peer reviews. The first volume includes 114 contributions related to bone shape analysis, robotics and tracking, segmentation, analysis of diffusion tensor MRI, shape analysis and morphometry, simulation and interaction, robotics and intervention, cardio-vascular applications, image analysis in oncology, brain atlases and segmentation, cardiac motion analysis, clinical applications, and registration. The second volume collects 118 papers related to segmentation, validation and quantitative image analysis, brain image processing, motion in image formation, image guided clinical applications, registration, as well as brain analysis and registration. Keywords Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics Type Book [Editorship] Book title 9th International Conference Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, Year 2006    Month October Publisher Springer Series LNCS 4190 & 4191 ISBN / ISSN ISBN-10: 3-540-44707-5 Publication link http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-102-22-173680215-0&changeHeader=true&SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/978-3-540-44707-8 BibTeX data [bibtex] IMM Group(s) Image Analysis & Computer Graphics