Medical Image Processing Studies:

Current Research in Biomedicine

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Univ. of Wisconsin Madison

ECG Compression using Signal Processing http://saigon.ece.wisc.edu/~waveweb /Research/ECG/page1.html

Univ. of Minnesota
Magnetic resonance imaging based on blood oxygen level dependent contrast New type of magnetic resonance imaging based on detection of image contrast determined by local varations in magnetic field

Takes advantage of non-spatially uniform magnetization

Animation of MRI: http://www.cmrr.drad.umn.edu/ fMRImovie.html

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Stanford Univ. Center for Advanced Medical Informatics

Spinal Image Fusion Project

Benefits: Improve diagnostic accuracy of spinal imaging techniques, improve outcome of existing treatments for patients with severe spinal disorders

Semi-Automated Editing of Medical Images

Benefits: Expedite editing process, save expensive radiologist time

3D Reconstruction of Blood Vessels from MR Angiograms

Benefits: Classify MRA data into vessel & surrounding-tissue categories, then implementation of program to test segmentation methods

http://camis.stanford.edu/projects/image_process.html

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Yale University

Segmentation of Anatomical Structure

Measurement of Cortex from 3D MR Images Boundary finding with Correspondence

http://noodle.med.yale.edu/seg.html Elasticity Imaging

Can noninvasively detect kidney transplant rejection

Univ. of Michigan

http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/research/index.html

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University of Alberta, CA

Medical Imaging Group

Acquiring & manipulation of image data for rehabilitation of scoliosis patients

To see an example of the imaging: http:// nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/medimg/medimg.html Signal Processing Society Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society http://www.ieee-tmi.org/

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Programs in Image Processing:

Magnetic Resonance User Interface

Matlab based Graphical User Interface software Uses time domain signals, then FT for interpreting data and quantitation results http://www.mrui.uab.es/mrui/mruiAbout.html Retinex Image Processing http://dragon.larc.nasa.gov/retinex /medical/medical1.html

NASAs Langley Research Center:

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TRACEE

Unix-based image processing environment

Includes visualization & analysis tools http://physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk/tracee/overview.html

Factor Analysis of Dynamic Structures

Benefits: Technicians spared time drawing regions of interest around organs; computational speed, increased accuracy (speculatory) http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/ipg/fads.html

Interesting websites

Westminster Dept. of Electrical Systems

CMSA Filter Designer - http://www.cmsa. westminster.ac.uk/filter_design.html www.hr/josip/DSP/sigproc.html www.dimag.com http://cis.jhu.edu/main.html

Signal Processing Information Database

News of Diagnostic Imaging

Center for Imaging Science

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Medical Image Analysis Online

www3.oup.co.uk/mediaj/

Bio-Imaging Research, Inc.

Information

CT scans, ultrasound imaging, MRIs, and more http://www.bio-imaging.com/

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Penn State Universitys Electrical Engineering Dept.

Multidimensional Image Processing http://cobb.ece.psu.edu/

Computer Vision Test Images

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil /v-images.html