title: Medical Image Analysis - past, present, and future.
abstract: In this editorial I summarize, against the backdrop of the research disciplines, meetings and journals of the time, the emergence in the early 1990s of the field that is eponymous with the present journal. I briefly summarize the current status of the field, and outline some possible future directions.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, MIT CSAIL, United States. Electronic address: sw@bwh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: William M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D012371:Robotics / Q000266:history
keywords: Analysis; Editorial; Image; Medical