A Practical Approach to Medical Image Processing
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A Practical Approach to Medical Image Processing is an invaluable resource to those studying, and those designing, image processing courses. The content is aimed at undergraduate or graduate courses in fields including Radiology, Medical Imaging, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, but will also be directly accessible to medical imaging practitioners through the variety of images sourced.
This book is a self-contained learning facility; including focused self-assessment questions and answers, the image processing software ImageJ and a series of medical images sourced from a variety of medical imaging modalities (provided on the enclosed CD-ROM). The material provided allows the reader to simultaneously check their progress while providing experiences which are directly transferable to medical imaging research.
Meticulous attention to detail has been given to the sections describing the installation and use of the ImageJ image processing package. I quickly became proficient with the package and was able to concentrate on the image processing techniques discussed rather than the negotiation of the software.
Beginning with the definitions of the five key concepts of medical image processing: image enhancement, image restoration, image analysis, image compression and image synthesis, the book progresses chapter by chapter to demonstrate the associated techniques. As the title states, the basis of this development is neither computationally nor mathematically orientated. Each new concept is illustrated through practical demonstration using ImageJ.
As a researcher in the physical sciences, I have a working, and therefore sporadic, knowledge of medical image processing. This book has provided a rigorous underpinning to the techniques I apply in my work and has given me new techniques to apply in the future. This book is highly recommended.
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