Geoff DoughertyCambridge University Press, 4/9/2009EAN 9780521860857, ISBN10: 0521860857Hardcover, 462 pages, 25.4 x 17.9 x 2.7 cmLanguage: EnglishImage 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.Preface1. Introduction2. Imaging systems3. Medical images obtained with ionizing radiation4. Medical images obtained with non-ionizing radiation5. Fundamentals of digital image processing6. Image enhancement in the spatial domain7. Image enhancement in the frequency domain8. Image restoration9. Morphological image processing10. Image segmentation11. Feature recognition and classification12. Three-dimensional visualization13. Medical applications of imaging14. Frontiers of image processing in medicineAppendix A. The Fourier Series and Fourier TransformAppendix B. Set theory and probabilityAppendix C. Shape and textureBibliographyIndex.