Digital Image Processing

“Receiving and analyzing visual information by

digital computer”

• Applications:
 Office automation
 Remote sensing
 Agriculture
 Criminology
 Medical

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 Digital Image Processing
Representation
Segmentation
& description

Preprocessing

Recognition

Image
acquisition

Problem domain Result

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Computer Aided Diagnosis

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Medical Imaging
 X-ray
 Ultrasound
 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
 Computed Tomography(CT)

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Medical Image Processing
 Interpreting Medical Images.

Early detection
Improve diagnostic performance.
Enhancement
Disease follow up
Staging

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Computer Aided Diagnosis(CAD)
 Software that analyzes medical image to estimate the
disease based on the feature represented.

 Need:
 Improve accuracy

 Reliability

 Time & cost

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CAD challenges
 Accuracy
 Identifying type of disease
 Save diagnosis time
 Disease stage
 Treatment planning
 Surgical planning

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CAD For Analysis of Tumors

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1) CAD For Recognition of Tumor Type
Preprocessing

Segmentation
(ROI)

Feature extraction

Feature selection

Classification

Benign Malign
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2) Content Based Image Retrieval
 Retrieving similar images to a given query image from
the image database.
 Diagnostic aid.
 Visual similarity(color,shape,texture)
 Challenges:
 Reliability
 Quality
 Automatic
 Dimensionality reduction

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Volumetric Analysis
 Assessment of tumor

 Treatment Planning

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3D Visualization
 3D Models of:
--Brain/Liver
-- Tumor
-- Blood vessels

 Helps in surgical planning

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 Projects
 Preprocessing
--Image denoising
--Image fusion
--contrast enhancement
-- Image deblurring
-- Image compression

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Segmentation
--Region based segmentation
--Edge based segmentation
--Watershed segmentation
--Active contour

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 Feature extraction
--Wavelets
--co-occurrence
--Run length coding

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Classification
-- Neural networks
--Fuzzy logic
--Neuro-fuzzy
--Support vector machine(SVM)

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 Content based image retrieval
 Perceptual image processing

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 Contact Details

Megha.P.Arakeri
Research Scholar
IT Department

E-mail: megha_u@yhaoo.co.in
Ph.No: 9008977922

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