This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed
post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Patch-based Techniques
in Medical Images, Patch-MI 2015, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI
2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.



The 25 full papers presented in this volume were
carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The topics covered are such
as image segmentation of anatomical structures or lesions; image enhancement;
computer-aided prognostic and diagnostic; multi-modality fusion; mono and multi
modal image synthesis; image retrieval; dynamic, functional physiologic and
anatomic imaging; super-pixel/voxel in medical image analysis; sparse
dictionary learning and sparse coding; analysis of 2D, 2D+t, 3D, 3D+t, 4D, and
4D+t data.