Biomedical Signal and Image Processing provides a comprehensive survey of all the conventional and advanced imaging modalities and the main computational methods used for processing the data obtained from each.

Features:

• Presents a comprehensive treatment of all novel and conventional processing techniques along with the principles and applications of biomedical measurement technologies
• Emphasizes hands-on learning through examples using real biomedical data and programming examples in MATLAB®
• Surveys the main computational methods associated with each one-dimensional signal and each imaging modality
• Discusses the basic physiology, biology, chemistry, and physics concepts related to measuring biomedical systems

Contents

Introduction to Digital Signal and Image Processing

• Signals and Biomedical Signal Processing
• What is a "Signal"?
• Analog, Discrete, and Digital Signals
• Processing and Transformation of Signals
• Signal Processing for Feature Extraction
• Some Characteristics of Digital Images
• Fourier Transform
• One-Dimensional Continuous Fourier Transform
• Sampling and NYQUIST Rate
• One-Dimensional Discrete Fourier Transform
• Two-Dimensional Discrete Fourier Transform
• Filter Design
• Image Filtering, Enhancement, and Restoration
• Point Processing
• Mask Processing: Linear Filtering in the Space Domain
• Frequency Domain Filtering
• Edge Detection and Segmentation of Images
• Edge Detection
• Image Segmentation
• Wavelet Transform
• From Fourier Transform to Short-Time Fourier Transform
• One-Dimensional Continuous Wavelet Transform
• One-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform
• Two-Dimensional Wavelet Transform
• Main Applications of the DWT
• Discrete Wavelet Transform in MATLAB
• Other Signal and Image Processing Methods
• Complexity Analysis
• Cosine Transform
• Introduction to Stochastic Processes
• Introduction to Information Theory
• Registration of Images
• Clustering and Classification
• Clustering versus Classification
• Feature Extraction
• K-Means: A Simple Clustering Method
• Bayesian Classifier
• Maximum Likelihood Method
• Neural Networks

Processing of Biomedical Signals

• Electrical Activities of Cell
• Ion Transport in Biological Cells
• Electrical Characteristics of Cell Membranes
• Hodgkin-Huxley Model
• Electrical Data Acquisition
• Some Practical Considerations for Biomedical Electrodes
• Electrocardiogram
• Function and Structure of the Heart
• Electrocardiogram: Signal of the Cardiovascular System
• Cardiovascular Diseases and the ECG
• Processing and Feature Extraction of ECGs
• Electroencephalogram
• The Brain and Its Functions
• Electroencephalogram: Signal of the Brain
• Evoked Potentials
• Diseases of the Central Nervous System and the EEG
• EEG for Assessment of Anesthesia
• Processing and Feature Extraction of EEGs
• Electromyogram
• Muscle
• EMG: Signal Muscles
• Neuromuscular Diseases and the EMG
• Other Applications of the EMG
• Processing and Feature Extraction of the EMG
• Other Biomedical Signals
• Blood Pressure and Blood Flow
• Electrooculogram
• Magnetoencephaogram
• Respiratory Signals
• More Biomedical Signals

Processing of Biomedical Images

• Principles of Computed Tomography
• Formulation of Attenuation Computed Tomography
• The Fourier Slice Theorem
• X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography
• Introduction and Overview
• Physics of X-Rays
• Attenuation-Based X-Ray Imaging
• Image Quality
• Computed Tomography
• Biomedical CT Scanners
• Diagnostic Applications of X-Ray Imaging
• CT Images for Stereotactic Surgeries
• CT Registration for Other Image-Guided Interventions
• Complications of X-Ray Imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Physical and Physiological Principles of MRI
• MRI
• Formulation of MRI Reconstruction
• Functional MRI (fMRI)
• Applications of MRI and fMRI
• Processing and Feature Extraction of MRI
• Comparison of MRI with Other Imaging Modalities
• Registration with MR Images
• Ultrasound Imaging
• Why Ultrasound Imaging?
• Generation and Detection of Ultrasound Waves
• Physical and Physiological Principles of Ultrasound
• Resolution of Ultrasound Imaging Systems
• Ultrasound Imaging Modalities
• Modes of Ultrasound Image Representation
• Ultrasound Image Artifacts
• Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Reconstruction
• Applications of Ultrasound Imaging
• Processing and Feature Extraction of Ultrasonic Images
• Image Registration
• Comparison of CT, MRI, and Ultrasonic Images
• Bio-Effects of Ultrasound
• Positron Emission Tomography
• Physical and Physiological Principles of PET
• PET Signal Acquisition
• PET Image Formation
• Significance of PET
• Applications of PET
• Processing and Feature Extraction of PET Images
• Comparison of CT, MRI, Ultrasonic, and PET Images
• Other Biomedical Imaging Techniques
• Optical Microscopy
• Fluorescent Microscopy
• Confocal Microscopy
• Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
• Electrical Impedance Imaging
• Electron Microscopy
• Biometrics

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