3D and 4D Medical Image Registration Combined with Image Segmentation and Visualization

Author(s):  
Guang Li ◽  
Deborah Citrin ◽  
Robert W. Miller ◽  
Kevin Camphausen ◽  
Boris Mueller ◽  
...  

Image registration, segmentation, and visualization are three major components of medical image processing. Three-dimensional (3D) digital medical images are three dimensionally reconstructed, often with minor artifacts, and with limited spatial resolution and gray scale, unlike common digital pictures. Because of these limitations, image filtering is often performed before the images are viewed and further processed (Behrenbruch, Petroudi, Bond, et al., 2004). Different 3D imaging modalities usually provide complementary medical information about patient anatomy or physiology. Four-dimensional (4D) medical imaging is an emerging technology that aims to represent patient motions over time. Image registration has become increasingly important in combining these 3D/4D images and providing comprehensive patient information for radiological diagnosis and treatment.

2011 ◽  
pp. 885-894
Author(s):  
Guang Li ◽  
Deborah Citrin ◽  
Robert W. Miller ◽  
Kevin Camphausen ◽  
Boris Mueller ◽  
...  

Image registration, segmentation, and visualization are three major components of medical image processing. Three-dimensional (3D) digital medical images are three dimensionally reconstructed, often with minor artifacts, and with limited spatial resolution and gray scale, unlike common digital pictures. Because of these limitations, image filtering is often performed before the images are viewed and further processed (Behrenbruch, Petroudi, Bond, et al., 2004). Different 3D imaging modalities usually provide complementary medical information about patient anatomy or physiology. Four-dimensional (4D) medical imaging is an emerging technology that aims to represent patient motions over time. Image registration has become increasingly important in combining these 3D/4D images and providing comprehensive patient information for radiological diagnosis and treatment.


2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 2035-2039
Author(s):  
Yu Wen Wang

Medical image processing includes many basic components such as medical image filtering, medical image segmentation and medical image registration, whose advanced algorithms can be found in ITK platform. But the ITK is difficult for the beginners. Only simple function is used to call dozens of image processing algorithms by MATITK . Therefore by using MATITK , the students can master these advanced algorithms and the improved implementation results can be obtained.


2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azlan Muharam ◽  
Afandi Ahmad

The rapid development of medical imaging and the invention of various medicines have benefited mankind and the whole community. Medical image processing is a niche area concerned with the operations and processes of generating images of the human body for clinical purposes.  Potential areas such as image acquisition, image enhancement, image compression and storage, and image based visualization also include in medical image processing analysis. Unfortunately, medical image compression dealing with three-dimensional (3-D) modalities still in the pre-matured stage. Along with that, very limited researchers take a challenge to apply hardware on their implementation. Referring to the previous work reviewed, most of the compression method used lossless rather than lossy. For implementation using software, MATLAB and Verilog are the famous candidates among researchers. In term of analysis, most of the previous works conducted objective test compared with subjective test. This paper thoroughly reviews the recent advances in medical image compression mainly in terms of types of compression, software and hardware implementations and performance evaluation. Furthermore, challenges and open research issues are discussed in order to provide perspectives for future potential research. In conclusion, the overall picture of the image processing landscape, where several researchers more focused on software implementations and various combinations of software and hardware implementation.  


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1552-1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jing Wang ◽  
Xiao Wei Song ◽  
Mei Fang

Image segmentation in medical image processing has been extensively used which has also been applied in different fields of medicine to assist doctors to make the correct judgment and grasp the patient's condition. However, nowadays there are no image threshold segmentation techniques that can be applied to all of the medical images; so it has became a challenging problem. In this paper, it applies a method of identifying edge of the tissues and organs to recognize its contour, and then selects a number of seed points on the contour range to locate the cancer area by region growing. And finally, the result has demonstrated that this method can mostly locate the cancer area accurately.


Fractals ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
WALTER S. KUKLINSKI

One of the more successful engineering applications of fractal geometry has been the utilization of fractal image models in medical image processing. These applications have included tissue characterization studies, textural image segmentation, and image restoration using fractal constraints. The class of fractal models used in medical image processing and the techniques used to estimate the fractal dimension associated with these models will be reviewed. An image segmentation algorithm that utilized a fractal textural feature and formulated the segmentation process as a configurational optimization problem is presented. The configurational optimization method allows information about both, the degree of correspondence between a candidate segment and an assumed textural model, and morphological information about the candidate segment to be used in the segmentation process. To apply this configurational optimization technique with a fractal textural model however, requires the estimation of the fractal dimension of an irregularly shaped candidate segment. The potential utility of a discrete Gerchberg-Papoulis bandlimited extrapolation algorithm to the estimation of the fractal dimension of an irregularly shaped candidate segment is also discussed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 1009-1012
Author(s):  
Yu Bin Jiao ◽  
Yan Lei Xu ◽  
Chao Feng

The image segmentation is very important in medical image processing. The paper studies the watershed segmentation, and over-segmentation is the main problem of watershed. Based on this, the paper proposed an improved watershed medical image segmentation method. And the corresponding simulation is done and the result show that the method can resolve the over-segmentation of watershed and can achieve good segmentation.


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