Knovel has just released a scholarly set of five titles from World Scientific. These well-harmonized volumes provide 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. Practitioners, research workers, computer scientists, and students will find this set of volumes to be a unique and significant reference source for years to come. All five titles are part of Knovel Library's Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology Subject Area. Those with an active subscription to this Subject Area have immediate access now as part of their subscription.
Medical Imaging Systems Technology - Modalities
Copyright (c) 2005, World Scientific. This volume includes essential subjects like: Multislice helical computed tomography - techniques and applications; techniques in magnetic resonance diffractive imaging and their application; techniques in 3-D assessment of tracheal stenosis by the means of spiral computed tomography (S-CT) and their application; edge preserved denoising in magnetic resonance images and their applications; techniques in X-ray computed tomography in the evaluation of drug release systems and their application; techniques in treating the bioelectromagnetic source imaging problems and their application; electrical impedance tomography for imaging and lesion estimation; single-shot magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and their applications; shape based interpolation methods for medical images and their application; nonparametric pixel appearance probability model using grid quantization for local image information representation; and measurement of the carotid artery stenosis from magnetic resonance angiography.
Medical Imaging Systems Technology - Analysis and Computational Methods
Copyright (c) 2005, World Scientific. This volume includes essential subjects like: modeling for medical image analysis - framework and applications; biomechanical models for image analysis and simulation; techniques in fractal analysis and their applications in brain MRI; techniques in infrared microspectroscopy and advanced computational methods for colon cancer diagnosis; advances in computerized image analysis methods on breast ultrasound; techniques in blind deblurring of spiral computed tomography images and their applications; model-based 3D encoding, 2D decoding of medical imaging data; interpolation techniques in multimodality image registration and their application; automatic construction of cardiac statistical shape models - applications in SPECT and MR imaging; techniques for mutual information-based brain image registration and their applications; and iterative Algebraic algorithms for image reconstruction.
Medical Imaging Systems Technology - Methods in Cardiovascular and Brain Systems
Copyright (c) 2005, World Scientific. This volume includes essential subjects like: geometrical and structural analysis of vessel systems in 3D medical image datasets; automatic methods to analyze and quantify cardiac left ventricle parameters by means of SPECT; left ventricular boundary segmentation from echocardiography application of ultrasound-based computational fluid dynamics to modeling blood flow in the carotid bifurcation; PDEs-based segmentation of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography - theory and applications; logic characterization and classification of ECG (electrocardiography) signals; techniques in image segmentation and 3D visualization in brain MRI and their applications; techniques in analyzing the neocortical fine structure; techniques in automatic cortical gray matter segmentation of three-dimensional (3D) brain images; and computer techniques for the automatic segmentation of 3D MR brain images.
Medical Imaging Systems Technology - Methods in Diagnosis Optimization
Copyright (c) 2005, World Scientific. This volume includes essential subjects like: robust techniques for enhancement of micro-calcifications in digital mammography; techniques in the detection of micro-calcification clusters in digital mammograms; fuzzy region growing and fusion methods for the segmentation of masses in mammograms; ROC methodology and its application in breast cancer diagnosis; parametric shape reconstruction in inverse problems - fundamental performance bounds and algorithms; wavelet techniques in region-based digital data compression and their application in digital mammography; techniques in segmenting images with anisotropic spatial resolution and for tracking temporal image; functional MRI activity characterization - an estimation and decision theoretic approach; and techniques for detection of spectral signatures in MR images and their applications.
Medical Imaging Systems Technology - Methods in General Anatomy
Copyright (c) 2005, World Scientific. This volume includes essential subjects like: medical imaging analysis of the three dimensional (3D) architecture of trabecular bone - techniques and their applications; medical image-based preformed titanium membranes for bone reconstruction; techniques for tracheal segmentation in medical imaging; knowledge-based system for contouring the spinal cord in computed tomography images; from global to local approaches for non-rigid registration; automated image segmentation: Issues and applications; techniques in image guided surgery based on integrated rate sensing, segmentation and registration framework methods; image registration and fusion for interventional MRI-guided treatment of prostate cancer; and detection and segmentation of Drusen deposits on retina images.
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