Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521860857)

Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. This text takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to illustrate and clarify concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who will become end-users of digital image processing, it covers the basics of the major clinical imaging modalities, explaining how the images are produced and acquired. It then presents the standard image processing operations, focusing on practical issues and problem solving. Crucially, the book explains when and why particular operations are done, and practical computer-based activities show how these operations affect real images. All images, links to the public-domain software ImageJ and custom plug-ins, and selected solutions are available from www.cambridge.org/books/dougherty.

Author: Geoff Dougherty
ISBN-10: 0521860857
ISBN-13: 9780521860857
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2009
Pages: 459
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.38lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2010