Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis is a comprehensive handbook of cutting-edge advanced techniques for quantitative image processing and analysis.

This book is an authoritative resource and self-study guide explaining sophisticated techniques of quantitative image analysis, with a focus on biomedical applications. It offers both theory and practical examples for immediate application of the topics as well as for in-depth study.

Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis presents methods in the four major areas of image processing: image enhancement and restoration, image segmentation, image quantification and classification, and image visualization. In each instance, the theory, mathematical foundation, and basic description of an image processing operator is provided, as well as a discussion of performance features, advantages, and limitations. Key algorithms are provided in pseudo-code to help with implementation, and biomedical examples are included in each chapter.

Image registration, storage, transport, and compression are also covered, and there is a review of image analysis and visualization software. The accompanying live DVD contains a selection of image analysis software, and it provides most of the algorithms from the book so readers can immediately put their new knowledge to use.

Contents

1. Image Analysis: A Perspective
2. Survey of Fundamental Image Processing Operators
3. Image Processing in the Frequency Domain
4. The Wavelet Transform and Wavelet-Based Filtering
5. Adaptive Filtering
6. Deformable Models and Active Contours
7. The Hough Transform
8. Texture Analysis
9. Shape Analysis
10. Fractal Approaches to Image Analysis
11. Image Registration
12. Image Storage, Transport, and Compression
13. Image Visualization
14. Image Analysis and Visualization Software

Appendices

• Image Analysis with Crystal Image
• Software on DVD

Index

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