Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications

✍ Scribed by Geoff Dougherty

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 483
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. This text takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to illustrate and clarify concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who will become end-users of digital image processing, it covers the basics of the major clinical imaging modalities, explaining how the images are produced and acquired. It then presents the standard image processing operations, focusing on practical issues and problem solving. Crucially, the book explains when and why particular operations are done, and practical computer-based activities show how these operations affect real images. All images, links to the public-domain software ImageJ and custom plug-ins, and selected solutions are available from www.cambridge.org/books/dougherty.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Abstract
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction to image processing
1 Introduction
2 Imaging systems
3 Medical images obtained with
ionizing radiation
4 Medical images obtained with
non-ionizing radiation
Part II. Fundamental concepts of image
processing
5 Fundamentals of digital image processing
6 Image enhancement in the
spatial domain
7 Image enhancement in the
frequency domain
8 Image restoration
Part III. Image analysis
9 Morphological image processing
10 Image segmentation
11 Feature recognition and classification
12 Three-dimensional visualization
Part IV. Medical applications and ongoing
developments
13 Medical applications of imaging
14 Frontiers of image processing
in medicine
Appendix A. The Fourier series and Fourier transform
Appendix B. Set theory and probability
Appendix C. Shape and texture
Bibliography
Index
Color plates