Medical Image Analysis

Medical Image Analysis is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier and the official journal of the MICCAI Society, founded in 1996 and covering the computational analysis of medical and biological images, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 14.0（Medical Image Analysis）是由（Elsevier）出版的同行评审期刊，也是（MICCAI Society）的官方期刊，1996 年创办，专注医学与生物图像的计算分析，2025 年影响因子为 14.0。

Scope

• It provides a forum for the dissemination of new research results in the field of medical and biological image analysis为医学与生物图像分析领域的新研究成果提供发表平台。^[1]
• It emphasises the applications of computer vision, virtual reality and robotics to biomedical imaging problems着重计算机视觉、虚拟现实与机器人技术在生物医学成像问题中的应用。
• It is interested in biomedical image datasets at all spatial scales, from molecular and cellular imaging to tissue and organ imaging关注各空间尺度的生物医学图像数据集，从分子与细胞成像到组织与器官成像。
• Typical datasets of interest are acquired from magnetic resonance, ultrasound, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, X-ray and optical or confocal microscopy关注的典型数据集来自磁共振、超声、计算机断层扫描、核医学、X 射线以及光学或共聚焦显微成像。
• It accepts papers that develop algorithms and strategies based on geometrical, statistical, physical or functional models to solve biomedical image problems接收基于几何、统计、物理或功能模型开发算法与策略以解决生物医学图像问题的论文。
• Problems covered include pictorial data representation, visualisation, feature extraction, segmentation, and inter-study and inter-subject registration涵盖的问题包括图像数据表达、可视化、特征提取、分割，以及研究间与受试者间配准。^[2]
• It also covers longitudinal and temporal studies, image-guided surgery, texture, shape and motion measurements, digital anatomical atlases and computational anatomy还涵盖纵向与时间序列研究、图像引导手术、纹理、形状与运动测量、数字解剖图谱与计算解剖学。
• It further covers virtual and augmented reality for therapy planning, telemedicine, telesurgery and image-guided medical robots并进一步涵盖用于治疗规划、远程医疗、远程手术与图像引导医疗机器人的虚拟与增强现实。

History

• It was founded in 1996, shortly after the success of the first CVRMed conference held in Nice in 1995该刊 1996 年创办，紧随 1995 年在尼斯举办的首次（CVRMed）会议之后。
• Its first volume was published by Oxford University Press in 1996其第 1 卷 1996 年由（Oxford University Press）出版。
• It has been published by Elsevier Science since 2000自 2000 年起由（Elsevier Science）出版。
• It has become the premier journal of the MICCAI Society, which organises the MICCAI conference each year on a different continent它已成为（MICCAI Society）的首选期刊，该学会每年在不同大洲举办（MICCAI）会议。
• It is a hybrid journal offering subscription and open access, the latter with an article publishing charge of 4,570 US dollars and a 20 percent discount for MICCAI members该刊为混合期刊，提供订阅与开放获取两种方式，后者收取 4,570 美元版面费，（MICCAI）会员可享 20% 折扣。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 8.545 in 2021 to 13.828 in 2022, 11.8 in 2024 and 14.0 in 2025影响因子从 2021 年的 8.545 升至 2022 年的 13.828，2024 年为 11.8，2025 年为 14.0。
• It ranks fourth among 217 journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports and is in the Q1 quartile在 2025 年期刊引证报告中位列（RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING）类别 217 种期刊第 4 位，属 Q1 区。

Editors

• The Co-Editors-in-Chief are Nicholas Ayache and James Duncan现任共同主编为（Nicholas Ayache）与（James Duncan）。
• Nicholas Ayache works at the Inria Centre at Universite Cote d'Azur in France（Nicholas Ayache）任职于法国的（Inria Centre at Universite Cote d'Azur）。
• James Duncan works at Yale University School of Medicine, and both have served as Co-Editors-in-Chief since the journal was founded（James Duncan）任职于（Yale University School of Medicine）；两人自创刊起即担任共同主编。
• The Emeritus Editor is Ron Kikinis, and the Senior Editors include Anne Martel, Josien P. W. Pluim, Kilian M. Pohl and Jerry Prince荣休编辑为（Ron Kikinis）；高级编辑包括（Anne Martel）、（Josien P. W. Pluim）、（Kilian M. Pohl）与（Jerry Prince）。
• The Senior Editors also include Daniel Rueckert, Dinggang Shen and Tom Vercauteren高级编辑还包括（Daniel Rueckert）、（Dinggang Shen）与（Tom Vercauteren）。
• The Executive Committee includes Michael Brady, Guido Gerig, Eric Grimson, Dimitris Metaxas, Wiro Niessen, Terry Peters, Michael Vannier and Max Viergever执行委员会包括（Michael Brady）、（Guido Gerig）、（Eric Grimson）、（Dimitris Metaxas）、（Wiro Niessen）、（Terry Peters）、（Michael Vannier）与（Max Viergever）。