Modern Computational Intelligence Methods for the Interpretation of Medical Images

• Main Authors: Ogiela, Marek R. (Author), Tadeusiewicz, Ryszard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 84
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

A detailed description of up-to-date methods used for computer processing and interpretation of medical images is given. The scope of the book include images acquisition, storing with compression, processing, analysis, recognition and also its automatic understanding In introduction general overview...

Table of Contents:

• Sources of medical images and their general characteristics
• Compressing medical images and storing them in medical databases
• Preprocessing medical images and their overall enhancement
• Algorithms and methods for the goal-oriented processing of medical images
• Pattern recognition, clustering and classification applied to selected medical images
• Automatic understanding of medical images as a new paradigm for advanced computer aiding of medical investigations
• Image understanding methods applied to medical diagnostics.