Medical Image Processing and Analysis module (ME51012)

The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the computational and mathematical methods used in medical image processing. The course gives the students a Masters-level postgraduate education in the theory, skills and understanding of many of the current methods used to enhance and extract useful information from medical images. This will also provide students with an opportunity to practice working in a team and communication with other students.

Indicative content          

The topics include:

• point operations, combining images, histograms, image thresholding
• segmentation, morphological image processing, image filtering
• a variety of radiological diagnostic scenarios and applications also included in this course 
• 3D reconstruction of tissue models will be used with software simulators

Intended learning outcomes      

This course will give knowledge and understanding of:

• major processes involved in formation of medical images
• quantitative analysis and visualization of numerous medical images modalities
• image processing algorithms
• fundamental methods for image enhancement
• efficacy and drawbacks of techniques for image filtering and segmentation
• image processing techniques in real medical images