Introduction – Origin – Steps in Digital Image Processing – Components – Elements of Visual Perception – Image Sensing and Acquisition – Image Sampling and Quantization – Relationships between pixels - color models MATLAB: Image sampling and quantization

Spatial Domain: Gray level transformations – Histogram processing – Basics of Spatial Filtering–Smoothing and Sharpening Spatial Filtering – Frequency Domain: Introduction to Fourier Transform – Smoothing and Sharpening frequency domain filters – Ideal, Butterworth and Gaussian filters MATLAB: Analysis of spatial and intensity resolution of images.

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- Morphological processing- erosion and dilation. MATLAB: Edge detection, line detection and point detection

Medical images obtained with ionizing radiation: Medical imaging modalities- Images from x-rays-Images from γ-rays-Medical images obtained with non-ionizing radiation: Ultrasound imaging- Magnetic resonance imaging- Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) MATLAB: Medical Image Enhancement

Computer-aided diagnosis in mammography - Tumor imaging and treatment – Angiography - Bone strength and osteoporosis – Tortuosity- Frontiers of image processing in medicine- Trends - Functional magnetic resonance imaging - Molecular imaging. MATLAB: Medical Image filtering