Biomedical Imaging Technologies

Acquisition of biomedical images:

digital photography and video cameras, optical techniques, microscopic techniques, X-ray imaging, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, emerging imaging technologies – physical principles, acquisition technologies and geometries, implementations and characteristics of imaging devices, image artefacts and quality.

Restoration, reconstruction and calibration: modelling and estimation of noise, image smoothing and sharpening, statistical and adaptive filtering, reconstruction algorithms, calibration and restoration of intensities, geometric calibration.

Image registration and integration:

classification and applications of image registration methods, modelling geometrical transformations and deformations, matching of control points, similarity based registration , similarity measures and optimization methods, analysis and evaluation of registration methods, image integration examples.

To introduce basic technologies for the acquisition of biomedical images and the procedures for their restoration, reconstruction, calibration and integration.

Basic theory, procedures and practical examples are considered at lectures, while practical knowledge is gained through problem-solving tasks at lab works.