Biomedical image processing

✍ Scribed by Thomas M. Deserno (auth.), Thomas Martin Deserno (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 634
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In modern medicine, imaging is the most effective tool for diagnostics, treatment planning and therapy. Almost all modalities have went to directly digital acquisition techniques and processing of this image data have become an important option for health care in future. This book is written by a team of internationally recognized experts from all over the world. It provides a brief but complete overview on medical image processing and analysis highlighting recent advances that have been made in academics. Color figures are used extensively to illustrate the methods and help the reader to understand the complex topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvii
Fundamentals of Biomedical Image Processing....Pages 1-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Fusion of PET and MRI for Hybrid Imaging....Pages 55-79
Cardiac 4D Ultrasound Imaging....Pages 81-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Morphological Image Processing Applied in Biomedicine....Pages 107-129
Medical Image Registration....Pages 131-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Texture in Biomedical Images....Pages 157-176
Multi-Scale and Multi-Orientation Medical Image Analysis....Pages 177-196
Feature Extraction and Selection for Decision Making....Pages 197-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Parametric and Non-Parametric Clustering for Segmentation....Pages 227-250
Region-Based Segmentation: Fuzzy Connectedness, Graph Cut and Related Algorithms....Pages 251-278
Model-Based Segmentation....Pages 279-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Melanoma Diagnosis....Pages 307-328
CADx Mammography....Pages 329-357
Quantitative Medical Image Analysis for Clinical Development of Therapeutics....Pages 359-375
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Visualization and Exploration of Segmented Anatomic Structures....Pages 379-401
Processing and Visualization of Diffusion MRI....Pages 403-424
Front Matter....Pages 425-425
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine....Pages 427-454
PACS-Based Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis....Pages 455-470
Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 471-494
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Systematic Evaluations and Ground Truth....Pages 497-520
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Toolkits and Software for Developing Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis Applications....Pages 521-544
Image Processing and the Performance Gap....Pages 545-566
Back Matter....Pages 567-595

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Image Processing and Computer Vision;Pattern Recognition;Medicine/Public Health, general;Imaging / Radiology