UNIT 1:
Steps in Digital Image Processing
Elements of Visual Perception
Image Sensing and Acquisition
Image Sampling and Quantization
Relationships between pixels
MATLAB: Image sampling and quantization
UNIT 2:
Spatial Domain: Gray level transformations
Basics of Spatial Filtering
Smoothing and Sharpening Spatial Filtering
Frequency Domain: Introduction to Fourier Transform
Smoothing and Sharpening frequency domain filters
MATLAB: Analysis of spatial and intensity resolution of images
UNIT 3:
Noise models – Mean Filters – Order Statistics
Adaptive filters – Band reject Filters – Band pass Filters
Notch Filters – Optimum Notch Filtering
Inverse Filtering – Wiener filtering
Segmentation: Detection of Discontinuities
Edge Linking and Boundary detection
Region based segmentation
UNIT 4:
Medical images obtained with ionizing radiation
Medical imaging modalities
Medical images obtained with non-ionizing radiation
Magnetic resonance imaging
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS)
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS)-II
UNIT 5:
Computer-aided diagnosis in mammography
Tumor imaging and treatment
Bone strength and osteoporosis
Frontiers of image processing in medicine
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
