Medical Image Processing Techniques and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dougherty, Geoff (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Radiology.; Image processing.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

The field of medical imaging advances so rapidly that all of those working in it, scientists, engineers, physicians, educators and others, need to frequently update their knowledge in order to stay abreast of developments. While journals and periodicals play a crucial role in this, more extensive, i...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Rapid Prototyping of Image Analysis Applications
• Seeded Segmentation Methods for Medical Image Analysis
• Deformable Models and Level Sets in Image Segmentation
• Fat Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images
• Angiographic Image Analysis
• Detecting and Analyzing Linear Structures in Biomedical Images: A Case Study Using Corneal Nerve Fibers
• Improving and Accelerating the Detection of Linear Features: Selected Applications in Biological Imaging
• Medical Imaging in the Diagnosis of Osteoporosis and Estimation of the Individual Bone Fracture Risk
• Applications of Medical Image Processing in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal     Deformity
• Image Analysis of Retinal Images
• Tortuosity as an Indicator of the Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy
• Medical Image Volumetric Visualization: Algorithms, Pipelines and Surgical Applications
• Sparse Sampling in MRI
• Digital Processing of Diffusion-Tensor Images of Avascular Tissues.