- 552 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A widely used, classroom-tested text, Applied Medical Image Processing: A Basic Course delivers an ideal introduction to image processing in medicine, emphasizing the clinical relevance and special requirements of the field. Avoiding excessive mathematical formalisms, the book presents key principles by implementing algorithms from scratch and using simple MATLAB®/Octave scripts with image data and illustrations on an accompanying companion website. Organized as a complete textbook, it provides an overview of the physics of medical image processing and discusses imaging physics, clinical applications of image processing, image formats and data storage, intensity transforms, filtering of images and applications of the Fourier transform, three-dimensional spatial transforms, volume rendering, image registration, tomographic reconstruction and basic machine learning.
This Third Edition of the bestseller:
- Contains a brand-new chapter on the basics of machine learning
- Devotes more attention to the subject of color space
- Includes additional examples from radiology, internal medicine, surgery, and radiation therapy
- Incorporates freely available programs in the public domain (e.g., GIMP, 3DSlicer, and ImageJ) when applicable
Beneficial to students of medical physics, biomedical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and related fields, as well as medical physicists, radiographers, radiologists, and other professionals, Applied Medical Image Processing: A Basic Course, Third Edition is fully updated and expanded to ensure a perfect blend of theory and practice.
Wolfgang Birkfellner studied theoretical physics at, and holds a Ph.D in medical physics from, the University of Vienna, Austria. Currently, he is heading the Digital Image Processing Laboratory at the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the Medical University of Vienna. He is also a reviewer and editorial board member for major journals in the field, program committee member for international conferences, and principal investigator for several third-party funded research projects. Previously, he served as senior researcher at the University Hospital Basel/Switzerland and associate professor of medical physics at the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Physics of Vienna Medical School.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- User Guide
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Few Basics of Medical Image Sources
- 2 Image Processing in Clinical Practice
- 3 Image Representation
- 4 Operations in Intensity Space
- 5 Filtering and Transformations
- 6 Segmentation
- 7 Spatial Transforms
- 8 Rendering and Surface Models
- 9 Registration
- 10 CT Reconstruction
- 11 Machine Learning
- 12 A Tutorial on Image-Guided Therapy
- 13 A Selection of MATLAB Commands
- 14 Glossary
- 15 List of MATLAB Sample Scripts
- Index
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