ESZB010-13 Medical Image Processing (2-2-5)
Syllabus:
Review of the main modalities of medical images - Radiological Images, Ultrasonography, Magnetic
Resonance Images, and Nuclear Medicine. Principles of Digital Images: Pixels, Voxels, Connectivity,
Brightness, Space Resolution, Contrast, Histogram and Levels of Quantization. Transformation of
Intensities - Equalization of Histograms; Spatial Filtering - Low Passes (Smoothing) and High Passes
(Edge Enhancement). Gradient Calculation - Contour Detection; Introduction to Segmentation Threshold Segmentation, Growth of Regions and Active Contours; Introduction to Tomographic
Reconstruction - Simple back projection; Introduction to texture descriptors - Co-occurrence Matrix
and Hu-moments; Applications of concepts in medical image processing.
Recomendation:
Principles of Medical Imaging; Mathematical Methods Applied to Biomedical Systems.
Required texts:
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GONZALEZ, Rafael C.; WOODS, Richard E.; Digital image processing. 3 ed. New Jersey, USA :
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008. 954 p. ISBN 013168728X
● PEDRINI, H.; SCHWARTZ, W. R.; ANÁLISE DE IMAGENS DIGITAIS: Princípios, Algoritmos e
Aplicações , Cengage Learning, 2007 - ISBN: 8522105952
● RANGAYYAN, R. M.; Digital Image Analysis. New York: CRC Press, 2005.
● RUSS, J. C.; The Image Processing Handbook. New York: CRC Press, 2002.
● BUSHBERG, Jerrold T.; [et.al]. The essential physics of medical imaging. 2. Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001. 933 p. ISBN 068330118-7.
● DOUGHERTY, Geoff; Digital image processing for medical applications. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, c2009. xii, 447 p. ISBN 9780521860857
● BURGER, Wilhelm; BURGE, Mark James; Digital image processing: an algorithmic introduction
using java. 1st ed. New York: Springer, 2008. xx, 564 p. (Texts in computer science). Includes
bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9781846283796.
● JAIN, Anil K.; Fundamentals of digital image processing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1989. 569 p. (Prentice hall information and system sciences series). ISBN 9780133361650.
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