The focus of medical image processing will be on post-acquisition manipulation and analysis that are used clinically and in research. Techniques for processing N-dimensional images acquired using several different medical image modalities will be studied including basic image visualization, filtering, segmentation and registration. The emphasis will be on engineering methods and techniques rather than a rigorous mathematical investigation of algorithms and theory. Programming will not be required, but there will be homework and projects that will require use of an open-source software tool, ImageJ, to perform image processing tasks. [NOTE: Many students in prior semesters have expressed a preference for using MATLAB from Mathworks for image processing. All assignments can be completed using either MATLAB or ImageJ. ]
