SPIE - Education Fundamentals of Medical Image Processing and Analysis SC086

This course gives an overview of medical image formation, enhancement, analysis, visualization, and communication with many examples from medical applications. It starts with a brief introduction to medical imaging modalities and acquisition systems. Basic approaches to display one-, two-, and three-dimensional (3D) biomedical data are introduced. As a focus, image enhancement techniques, segmentation, texture analysis and their application in diagnostic imaging will be discussed. To complete this overview, storage, retrieval, and communication of medical images are also introduced. In addition to this theoretical background, a 45 min practical demonstration with ImageJ is given. ImageJ is a Java-based platform for medical image enhancement and visualization. It is developed by the National Institutes of Health, USA, open source and freely available in the public domain. For this course, ImageJ is appropriately configured with useful plug-ins (e.g. DICOM import, 3D rendering) and distributed on CD-ROM. Attendees are welcome to perform on their own laptop computers. This course gives an overview of medical image formation, enhancement, analysis, visualization, and communication as well as their applications in medical imaging. It starts with a brief introduction to medical imaging modalities and acquisition systems. Basic approaches to display one-, two-, and three-dimensional (3D) biomedical data are introduced. As a focus, image enhancement techniques, segmentation, texture analysis and their application in diagnostic imaging will be discussed. To complete this overview, storage, retrieval, and communication of medical images are also introduced. In addition to this theoretical background, an overview of useful software tools is given. In particular, ImageJ as Java-based platform for medical image enhancement and visualization (including plugins for DICOM import and 3D rendering) will be carefully demonstrated. Developed by the National Institutes of Health, ImageJ is open source and freely available in the public domain.