Biomedical Images and Computers Selected Papers Presented at the United States-France Seminar on Biomedical Image Processing, St. Pierre de Chartreuse, France, May 27–31, 1980

The technology of automatic pattern recognition and digital image processing, after over two decades of basic research, is now appearing in important applications in biology and medicine as weIl as industrial, military and aerospace systems. In response to a suggestion from Mr. Norman Caplan, ·the P...

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Other Authors: Sklansky, J. (Editor), Bisconte, J.-C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Theme 1: Microscopic Image Analysis
  • The application of computerized high resolution scanning techniques to the identification of human cells and tissues
  • Automated analysis of Papanicolaou stained cervical specimens using a television-based analysis system (Leytas)
  • Recognition and quantification of complex histological tissues: applications to nervous tissues
  • Bone marrow cell image analysis by color cytophotometry
  • Feature extraction by mathematical morphology in the field of quantitative cytology
  • Automation in cytogenetics at C.E.A. Paris
  • Image processing in acoustic microscopy
  • Digital image processing of electron micrographs
  • Theme 2: Radiological Image Analysis
  • Computer-assisted measurement of coronary arteries from cineangiograms: present technologies and clinical applications
  • Image analysis in x-ray radiography
  • Intravenous angiography using computerized fluoroscopy apparatus
  • Intravenous cerebral angiography and image processing
  • Digital analysis of x-ray radiographs
  • Ultrasound signal processing for imaging and diagnosis
  • Image restoration in cardiac radiology
  • Ultrasonic multitransducer input signal analysis
  • Theme 3: Tomography
  • High speed cardiac x-ray computerized tomography
  • Approaches to region of interest tomography
  • Coded aperture tomography
  • Positron emission tomography
  • A new time-of-flight method for positron computed tomography (P.C.T.)
  • Sampled aperture techniques for high resolution ultrasound tomography
  • Segmentation of tomographic images
  • Theme 4: Image Processing Technology
  • Technology and biomedical applications of automated light microscopy
  • Advances in the processing of large biomedical data bases using specialized computers, improved device technology, and computer-aided design
  • Mathematics of digitizationof binary images
  • Cellular computers and biomedical image processing
  • Biomedical parallel image processing on Propal 2.
  • Appendix: List of Participants