CAP 5431 - Medical Imaging Informatics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Course Description: This course provides a broad and practical introduction to the major techniques employed in medical image processing: 3D and 4D medical imaging modalities, dilation and erosion, segmentation and thresholding, denoising, direct space filter kernels, Fourier-based filters, matching and morphing, artificial neural networks, self-organizing maps, principal component analysis. The course will be useful for graduate students in biomedical computing who wish to learn state of the art data mining and image vision techniques. Medical imaging related policies (DICOM, HIPPA compliance, data sharing) are also discussed.