Posted by Jeff on Dec 4, 2009 in
Biomedical Engineering
TweetThis post is continuing from Biomedical Image Processing – II. DICOM Image Standard Medical specialists have been slow to adopt widely accepted standards for image/film storage, display, and transmission. However, one standard has been adopted with reasonable success in the radiology community: DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) has been progressively developed since 1983 [...]
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Posted by Jeff on Dec 1, 2009 in
Biomedical Engineering
TweetWhy do we study image processing? Images play a large role in the presentation of physiological information. Not all image data, however, are ideal. Images can be corrupted by noise, exhibit blur or spatial warping, contain non-optimal intensity/color representations, or simply be too large (or too small) to be of practical or diagnostic value. The [...]
Tags: analog images, biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, digital image processing, image processing, processing images, sampling, scan line sensor