IJCARS: BVM 2019 special issue

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Since many years, medical image processing and analysis is an exciting and evolving field. Significant progress is currently being made in the computer-aided processing and automatic analysis of medical image data, and the limits of feasibility are being expanded every day. Since the advent of deep learning, numerous breakthroughs were achieved and new results emerge in rapid succession. For this reason, the German Workshop on Medical Image Progressing “Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin” (BVM) continues its + 20-year tradition to provide an annually forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest algorithms, systems, and applications in this field. The aim is to deepen the interaction between scientists, industry, and users as well as the explicit inclusion of young scientists who report on their bachelor, master, doctoral, and habilitation projects. BVM very successfully held previous workshops in Aachen, Berlin, Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Lübeck, and Munich and became a central interdisciplinary forum for the German medical image computing community. …