Deep learning for medical image analysis

This special issue collects the original contribution of works which addresses the challenges from the deep learning techniques for medical image analysis. Papers on pure medical imaging would be out of the scope of this special issue. This special issue received 104 submissions. After a full reviewing process involving more than two qualified reviewers for each paper and at least two rounds of revision, we selected 20 papers for publication. All of those papers represent a sample of the current advances on deep learning techniques for medical image analysis.