The field of medical imaging has been revolutionized by new techniques in powerful computations, image processing, and modalities such as Computer-Aided Tomography (CAT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), among others.This book clearly reveals the effectiveness and great significance of the modalities available,such as Computer-Aided Tomography (CAT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), among others.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2004. This is Volume I of six of a series on medical imaging systems techniques and applications. This subject area exemplifies a meaningful manifestation of the power of the technologies of the second industrial revolution. The first chapter in this volume on cardiovascular systems emphasizes the importance of accurate measurements of cardiac shape and dynamics as they reflect the scope of cardiac diseases, the major cause of mortality in developed countries today. Cardiac imaging plays an important role in this regard, and almost the only one in this clinical context.

This scholarly set of well-harmonized volumes provides indispensable and complete coverage of the exciting and evolving subject of medical imaging systems. Leading experts on the international scene tackle the latest cutting-edge techniques and technologies in an in-depth but eminently clear and readable approach.Complementing and intersecting one another, each volume offers a comprehensive treatment of substantive importance to the subject areas. The chapters, in turn, address topics in a self-contained manner with authoritative introductions, useful summaries, and detailed reference lists. Extensively well-illustrated with figures throughout, the five volumes as a whole achieve a unique depth and breath of coverage.As a cohesive whole or independent of one another, the volumes may be acquired as a set or individually.

Ch. 1. Modeling for medical image analysis : framework and applications / Marek Kretowski and Johanne Bézy-Wendling -- ch. 2. Biomechanical models for image analysis and simulation / M. Sermesant, H. Delingette and N. Ayache -- ch. 3. Techniques in fractal analysis and their applications in brain MRI / Khan M. Iftekharuddin -- ch. 4. Techniques in infrared microspectroscopy and advanced computational methods for colon cancer diagnosis / S. Mordechai ... [et al.] -- ch. 5. Advances in computerized image analysis methods on breast ultrasound / Anant Madabhushi and Dimitris N. Metaxas -- ch. 6. Techniques in blind deblurring of spiral computed tomography images and their applications / Ming Jiang and Jing Wang -- ch. 7. Model-based 3D encoding/2D decoding of medical imaging data / G. Menegaz -- ch. 8. Interpolation techniques in multimodality image registration and their application / Jeffrey Tsao, Jim Xiuquan Ji and Zhi-Pei Liang -- ch. 9. Automatic construction of cardiac statistical shape models : applications in SPECT and MR imaging / Sebastián Ordás and Alejandro F. Frangi -- ch. 10. Techniques for mutual information-based brain image. Registration and their applications / Hua-Mei Chen and Pramod K. Varshney -- ch. 11. Iterative algebraic algorithms for image reconstruction / Ming Jiang

CI Techniques & Algorithms for a Variety of Medical Imaging SituationsDocuments recent advances and stimulates further researchA compilation of the latest trends in the field, Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Techniques and Applications explores how intelligent computing can bring enormous benefit to existing technology in medical

This book presents different approaches on multi-modality imaging with a focus on biomedical applications. Medical imaging can be divided into two categories: functional (related to physiological body measurements) and anatomical (structural) imaging modalities. In particular, this book covers imaging combinations coming from the usual popular modalities (such as the anatomical modalities, e.g. X-ray, CT and MRI), and it also includes some promising and new imaging modalities that are still being developed and improved (such as infrared thermography (IRT) and photoplethysmography imaging (PPGI)), implying potential approaches for innovative biomedical applications. Moreover, this book includes a variety of tools on computer vision, imaging processing, and computer graphics, which led to the generation and visualization of 3D models, making the most recent advances in this area possible. This is an ideal book for students and biomedical engineering researchers covering the biomedical imaging field.

This scholarly set of well-harmonized volumes provides indispensable and complete coverage of the exciting and evolving subject of medical imaging systems. Leading experts on the international scene tackle the latest cutting-edge techniques and technologies in an in-depth but eminently clear and readable approach.Complementing and intersecting one another, each volume offers a comprehensive treatment of substantive importance to the subject areas. The chapters, in turn, address topics in a self-contained manner with authoritative introductions, useful summaries, and detailed reference lists. Extensively well-illustrated with figures throughout, the five volumes as a whole achieve a unique depth and breath of coverage.As a cohesive whole or independent of one another, the volumes may be acquired as a set or individually.