Decision forests for computer vision and medical image analysis This practical and easy to follow text explores the theoretical underpinnings of decision forests organizing the vast existing literature on the field within a new general purpose forest model. Topics and features: with a foreword by Prof. Y. Amit and Prof. D. Geman recounting their participation in the development of decision forests; introduces a flexible decision forest model capable of addressing a large and diverse set of image and video analysis tasks; investigates both the theoretical foundations and the practical implementation of decision forests.