Digital Processing of Biomedical Images

✍ Scribed by K. Preston Jr. (auth.), K. Preston Jr., M. Onoe (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Until recently digital processing of biomedical images was conducted solely in the research laboratories of the universities and industry. However, with the advent of computerized tomography in 1972 and the computerized white blood cell differential count in 1974, enormous changes have suddenly occurred. Digital image pro­ cessing in biomedicine has now become the most active sector in the digital image processing field. Processing rates have reached the level of one trillion picture elements per year in the United States alone and are expected to be ten trillion per year in 1980. This enormous volume of activity has stimulated further re­ search in biomedical image processing in the last two years with the result that important inroads have been made in applications in radiology, oncology, and ophthalmology. Although much significant work in this field is taking place in Europe, it is in the United States and Japan that the level of activity is highest.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Digital Image Processing in the United States....Pages 1-10
Digital Image Processing in Japan....Pages 11-16
An Automated Microscope for Digital Image Processing Part I: Hardware....Pages 17-28
An Automated Microscope for Digital Image Processing Part II: Software....Pages 29-46
Clinical use of Automated Microscopes for Cell Analysis....Pages 47-58
Multiband Microscanning Sensor....Pages 59-74
Computer Synthesis of High Resolution Electron Micrographs....Pages 75-88
Computer Processing of Electron Micrographs of DNA....Pages 89-100
Significance Probability Mappings and Automated Interpretation of Complex Pictorial Scenes....Pages 101-114
Intracavitary Beta-Ray Scanner and Image Processing for Localization of Early Uterine Cancer....Pages 115-131
New Vistas in Medical Reconstruction Imagery....Pages 133-160
Digital Image Processing for Medical Diagnoses using Gamma Radionuclides and Heavy Ions from Cyclotrons....Pages 161-185
Processing of RI-Angiocardiographic Images....Pages 187-202
Bioimage Synthesis and Analysis from X-Ray, Gamma, Optical and Ultrasound Energy....Pages 203-226
A Pap Smear Prescreening System: Cybest....Pages 227-241
Automatic Analysis and Interpretation of Cell Micrographs....Pages 243-262
Multi-Layer Tomography Based on Three Stationary X-Ray Images....Pages 263-270
Texture Analysis in Diagnostic Radiology....Pages 271-290
Automated Diagnosis of the Congenital Dislocation of the Hip-Joint [Luxatio Coxae Congentia (LCC)]....Pages 291-308
Boundary Detection in Medical Radiographs....Pages 309-322
Feature Extraction and Quantitative Diagnosis of Gastric Roentgenograms....Pages 323-334
Computer Processing of Chest X-Ray Images....Pages 335-355
Miniscr-V2 — the Software System for Automated Interpretation of Chest Photofluorograms....Pages 357-384
Automatic Recognition of Color Fundus Photographs....Pages 385-398
Image Processing in Television Ophthalmoscopy....Pages 399-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-442

✦ Subjects

Science, general