Guide to Medical Image Analysis Methods and Algorithms /

• Main Author: Toennies, Klaus D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Radiology.; Image processing.; Computer Science.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Imaging / Radiology.

Analysis of medical imaging poses special challenges distinct from traditional image analysis. Furthermore, the analysis must fit into the clinical workflow within which it has been requested. This important guide/reference presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis. Highly practica...

Table of Contents:

• The Analysis of Medical Images
• Digital Image Acquisition
• Image Storage and Transfer
• Image Enhancement
• Feature Detection
• Segmentation: Principles and Basic Techniques
• Segmentation in Feature Space
• Segmentation as a Graph Problem
• Active Contours and Active Surfaces
• Registration and Normalization
• Detection and Segmentation by Shape and Appearance
• Classification and Clustering
• Validation
• Optimisation of Markov Random Fields
• Variational Calculus
• Principal Component Analysis
• References.