This paper is intended as an overview of recent developments and trends. It wishes to pro- vide a short survey of the principal families of approaches, their use and limitations. Algo- rithms generic or specific to particular imaging modalities are not given here (see for exam- ple (10)). Section 2 presents the analysis pipeline, which accepts as input raw data and provides some form of processing or interpretation. Two basic processing paradigms are summarized in section 3, namely linear (or pseudo-linear) and morphological. Section 4 develops the prob- lem of features extraction by means of image segmentation techniques. Analysis of multi- slice and volume data, and matching, between.
