Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 50 Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen .Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg Motion Planning in Medicine: Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-Guided Procedures ABC .Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy, E-mail: siciliano@ Professor Oussama Khatib, Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA, E-mail: khatib@ Professor Frans Groen, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: groen@ Authors Ron Alterovitz UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94143-1708 USA and.