Guide to Medical Image Analysis

Dr. Klaus D. Toennies is a Professor of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at the Department of Simulation and Graphics of the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany.

• The Analysis of Medical Images.- Digital Image Acquisition.- Image Storage and Transfer.- Image Enhancement.- Feature Detection.- Segmentation: Principles and Basic Techniques.- Segmentation in Feature Space.- Segmentation as a Graph Problem.- Active Contours and Active Surfaces.- Registration and Normalization.- Detection and Segmentation by Shape and Appearance.- Classification and Clustering.- Validation.- Optimisation of Markov Random Fields.- Variational Calculus.- Principal Component Analysis.- References.