Abstract
Computer-aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) is
emerging as an innovative interdisciplinary technology
for medical service. The traditional concept of
automated computer diagnosis is encountered with a
significant barrier because computerized medical
systems cannot fully replace human doctors with the
comparable level of performance. By contrast, CAD is
becoming widely adopted in clinical work because it
offers complementary computing power to enhance
doctor’s competence for medical examination. 4 stateof-the-art CAD technologies were presented in the
special session of medical image processing and CAD
at ICCH 2012 as reported in this short paper. Those
technologies will be briefly introduced here to show
the current trend of development of CAD and to
demonstrate how CAD helps in medical care.