MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING Flashcards
What are the things included in a medical diagnosis?
Consultation,
Physical Examination
Medical Tests
Importance of medical image
- diagnose, treat and cure px w/o causing any harmful side effects
- see a px w/o having to cut them open
- benefit px w/o adding to the already high medical costs
Give 5 imaging modalities
xray computed tomography magnetic resonance imaging single-photon emission computed tomography Positron emission tomography ultrasound nuclear magnetic resonance
What can be combined with either CT/MRI?
PET
What is f on fMRI? what does it do?
F-functional
conducts functional exams
Why is there a specific modality for a specific disease/disease process?
Because of the difference in atomic no. of the body
Give all 5 processes of the computer vision system
Image Acquisition Image Processing Segmentation Feature Estimation Data Analysis
What is included in feature estimation?
geometrical, topological, texture
What is included in data analysis?
recognition, classification, interpretation
Give 3 levels of processing
Low-level
Intermediate-level
High-level
What are under the LL, IL, and HL?
LL - Image Acquisition & Preprocessing
IL - Segmentation & Representation and Description
HL - Recognition and Interpretation
Differentiate LL, IL, HL
LL - standard procedures are applied & no intelligent capabilities are required
IL - extract and characterize components in the image and require some intelligent capabilities
HL - recognition and interpretation & require high intelligent capabilities
Give the 5 sections of the architecture module
Formation Enhancement/Preprocessing Visualization Analysis Management
Includes all the steps from capturing the image to forming a digital image matrix
IMAGE FORMATION
2 sections of image formation
Image acquisition and digitization
Difference between image acqui. and digitization
IA - done by the equipment; produces binary codes
D - Implies a discrete nature of the image
2 steps of digitization and define
Sampling Rate - determines the spatial resolution of the digitized image
Quantization Level - determines the number of grey levels in the DI
What does pre-processing include?
noise suppression, contrast enhancement, intensity equalization
What are the 5 processes under pre-processing?
enhancement filtering smoothing registration transformation