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Applied Medical Image Processing, 2nd Edition
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Applied Medical Image Processing, 2nd Edition

by Wolfgang Birkfellner
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
455 pages
12h 41m
English
CRC Press
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Preface to the First Edition

Given the rapid evolution of radiological imaging in the past four decades, medical image processing nowadays is an essential tool for clinical research. Applications range from research in neuroscience, biomechanics and biomedical engineering to clinical routine tasks such as the visualization of huge datasets provided by modern computed tomography systems in radiology, the manufacturing of patient-specific prostheses for orthopedic surgery, the precise planning of dose distributions in radiation oncology, the fusion of multimodal image data for therapy monitoring in internal medicine, and computer-aided neurosurgical interventions.

For more than a decade, we have been working as scientists in this vital field of ...

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