Guide to Medical Image Analysis: Methods and Algorithms

By Klaus D. Toennies

Book Overview

This book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis. Practical in approach, the text is uniquely structured by potential applications. Features: presents learning objectives, exercises and concluding remarks in each chapter, in addition to a glossary of abbreviations; describes a range of common imaging techniques, reconstruction techniques and image artefacts; discusses the archival and transfer of images, including the HL7 and DICOM standards; presents a selection of techniques for the enhancement of contrast and edges, for noise reduction and for edge-preserving smoothing; examines various feature detection and segmentation techniques, together with methods for computing a registration or normalisation transformation; explores object detection, as well as classification based on segment attributes such as shape and appearance; reviews the validation of an analysis method; includes appendices on Markov random field optimization, variational calculus and principal component analysis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447160967
• ISBN13: 9781447160960
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"