MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING Flashcards

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1
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What are the things included in a medical diagnosis?

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Consultation,
Physical Examination
Medical Tests

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Importance of medical image

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  • 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
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3
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Give 5 imaging modalities

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xray
computed tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
single-photon emission computed tomography
Positron emission tomography
ultrasound
nuclear magnetic resonance
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4
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What can be combined with either CT/MRI?

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PET

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5
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What is f on fMRI? what does it do?

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F-functional

conducts functional exams

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6
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Why is there a specific modality for a specific disease/disease process?

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Because of the difference in atomic no. of the body

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7
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Give all 5 processes of the computer vision system

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Image Acquisition
Image Processing
Segmentation
Feature Estimation
Data Analysis
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8
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What is included in feature estimation?

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geometrical, topological, texture

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9
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What is included in data analysis?

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recognition, classification, interpretation

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10
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Give 3 levels of processing

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Low-level
Intermediate-level
High-level

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What are under the LL, IL, and HL?

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LL - Image Acquisition & Preprocessing
IL - Segmentation & Representation and Description
HL - Recognition and Interpretation

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12
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Differentiate LL, IL, HL

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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

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13
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Give the 5 sections of the architecture module

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Formation
Enhancement/Preprocessing
Visualization
Analysis
Management
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14
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Includes all the steps from capturing the image to forming a digital image matrix

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IMAGE FORMATION

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2 sections of image formation

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Image acquisition and digitization

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16
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Difference between image acqui. and digitization

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IA - done by the equipment; produces binary codes

D - Implies a discrete nature of the image

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2 steps of digitization and define

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Sampling Rate - determines the spatial resolution of the digitized image

Quantization Level - determines the number of grey levels in the DI

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18
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What does pre-processing include?

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noise suppression, contrast enhancement, intensity equalization

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19
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What are the 5 processes under pre-processing?

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enhancement
filtering
smoothing
registration
transformation
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20
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It processes an image so that the result is more suitable than the original image

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enhancement

21
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2 kinds of enhancement and define

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SPATIAL DOMAIN METHODS - point processing, histogram equalization, image subtraction

FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHODS - fourier transform

22
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what does filtering do?

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remove noise

23
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What are the techniques under filtering?

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Averaging filter
median filter
max/min filter

24
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What does smoothing do?

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diminish the effects of camera noise, spurious pixel values

25
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2 methods of smoothing

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neighborhood averaging

edge-preserving smoothing

26
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what does registration do?

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register exams done under the same patient

27
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2 kinds of registration and define

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UNIMODAL -same modality used

MULTI-MODAL - different modalities used

28
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It can be simple arithmetic operations on images or complex mathematical operations w/c convert images from one representation to another

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transformation

29
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3 techniques under transformation

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Discrete Fourier Transfer
Discrete Cosine Transfer
Discrete Wavelet Transfer

30
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Image analysis includes all steps of what?

A

processing

31
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3 parts of image analysis

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segmentation, feature extraction, classification

32
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3 kinds of segmentation

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pixel-based, edge-based, region based

33
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what are the 3 types of pixel-based

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thresholding, adaptive thresholding, clustering

34
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what are the 3 types of edge-based

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live wire segmentation, snake algorithm, active contour algorithm

35
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what are the 3 types of region based

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agglomerative algo.
divisive algo.
hybrid algo.

36
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it is defined as the first step of high level intelligent image analysis

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feature extraction

37
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levels of FE

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data
region
texture
edge
pixel
38
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2 kinds of classification

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static and synthatic

39
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refers to all types of manipulation of the matrix resulting in an optimized output of the image

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image visualization

40
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sums up all techniques that provide efficient storage, communication etc

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Image management

41
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IM includes

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compression
archive
retrieval
communication

42
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When is a general performance true positive and false positive

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TP - object is present and observed

FP - object isn’t present but observed

43
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When is GP false negative and true negative?

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FN - object is present but not observed

TN - object is not present and not observed

44
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it is melting together images from different modalities

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fusion imaging

45
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4 types of list of applications

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diagnosis
studying disease progression
image guided surgery
patient comparison/atlas construction

46
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it is combining into form multiple imaging modalities

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diagnosis

47
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monitoring changes in size, shape, position etc

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studying disease progression

48
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relating pre-operative images

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image-guided surgery

49
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relating one’s individual anatomy to a standardized atlas

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patient comparison/atlas construction