This review article describes four parts of our recent progresses in the research which has been performed under the research project "Computational anatomy for computer-aided diagnosis and therapy: Frontiers of medical image sciences" (http://www.comp-anatomy.org/) funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, Japan. The overall purpose of our works under this project is to engage in model constructions for computational anatomy and the applications of the models

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... eloped to computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for automatically recognizing the anatomical structures and analyzing the functions of different organs in a whole body region, all of which are imaged with imaging modalities such as CT, MR, PET, eye fundus photograph, and dental panoramic radiograph. These progresses show the efficiency and potential usefulness of the proposed research works by the promising results.