Solar Image Analysis and Visualization

Preface: A Topical Issue on Solar Image Analysis and Visualization.- FESTIVAL: A Multiscale Visualization Tool for Solar Imaging Data.- Visualization of Distributed Solar Data and Metadata with the Solar Weather Browser.- Widespread Occurrence of Trenching Patterns in the Granulation Field: Evidence for Roll Convection?.- Principal Components and Independent Component Analysis of Solar and Space Data.- Automatic Recognition and Characterisation of Supergranular Cells from Photospheric Velocity Fields.- Automated McIntosh-Based Classification of Sunspot Groups Using MDI Images.- Multifractal Properties of Evolving Active Regions.- Multiscale Analysis of Active Region Evolution.- A Comparison of Feature Classification Methods for Modeling Solar Irradiance Variation.- The Observed Long- and Short-Term Phase Relation between the Toroidal and Poloidal Magnetic Fields in Cycle 23.- Comparison of Five Numerical Codes for Automated Tracing of Coronal Loops.- Segmentation of Loops from Coronal EUV Images.- The Pixelised Wavelet Filtering Method to Study Waves and Oscillations in Time Sequences of Solar Atmospheric Images.- A Time-Evolving 3D Method Dedicated o the Reconstruction of Solar Plumes and Results Using Extreme Ultraviolet Data.- Automatic Detection and Classification of Coronal Holes and Filaments Based on EUV and Magnetogram Observations of the Solar Disk.- Spatial and Temporal Noise in Solar EUV Observations.- Multiscale Edge Detection in the Corona.- Automated Prediction of CMEs Using Machine Learning of CME?-?Flare Associations.- Automatic Detection and Tracking of Coronal Mass Ejections in Coronagraph Time Series.