"Congratulations to the first reference and textbook for a new interdisciplinary approach to image-based engineering and science. The book covers all topics ranging from imaging, image processing, geometric modeling, and mesh generation, to simulation and applications. It is an excellent textbook for both senior undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and engineers in aerospace, biomedical, civil, materials science, and mechanical engineering." Wing Kam Liu, PhD, PE, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
"Professor Zhangs book on image-derived geometric modeling and meshing will be an indispensable resource for researchers in computational biology and medicine where mesh-generation is a critical bottle neck. The author covers state-of-the-art methods such as isogeometric analysis and T-splines while providing a thorough background and ample practical examples for interdisciplinary readership." Andrew D. McCulloch, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego
"This is a wide-ranging book, bringing together a set of topics not yet covered in a single book. It will give a graduate student or advanced undergraduate a solid foundation to understand a modern pipeline, which collects data from the real world and performs an engineering analysis of it, particularly biomedical data. Topics covered include numerical methods and basic geometric computations, various different 2D and 3D image capture techniques, image preprocessing, surface and volume mesh extraction, T-splines for geometric modeling, and various finite element methods for engineering analysis. The book is to be commended in its cross-discipline approach, including topics from math, computer science, and engineering. Students often just consider each topic in isolation but are not shown how the pieces fit together to make a whole. This book will give them the big picture." Ralph Martin, Cardiff University
