Medical image processing and analysis

Author: Luo Shuqian
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book aims to cover a wide range of topics and new developments in medical image processing and analysis technologies. It includes foundational knowledge for medical image research, enhancement techniques, segmentation techniques, registration techniques, and visualization techniques. As extended knowledge, it covers diagnostic and therapeutic applications of medical images, such as image compression, PACS, standard atlases, image-guided surgery, and image-guided therapy. This book can serve as a graduate textbook or as a teaching material for medical image processing courses in universities and colleges. Engineers, technicians, teachers, and researchers interested in medical image processing can use this book to learn basic concepts, find algorithms, and use it as a reference tool for research work.