Applied Medical Image Processing, 2nd Edition

User Guide

This is an introductory book for those who want to learn about the inner mechanics of medical image processing algorithms. Most likely, the course is not suitable for those who are interested in simply using available medical image processing software. An appropriate reference for this audience is given at the end of this section.

We have organized the course in such a manner that it gives an overview of the physics of medical imaging, which is followed by eight chapters that cover the most important aspects of medical image processing, from image file formats to reconstruction of volumetric images from projection data. Each chapter contains a rather short introduction of the basic concepts and several simple scripts for the Mathworks ...