Engineering - Course - Biomedical image processing

 Basics of imaging including the differences between pixels and voxels, spatial resolution, orientation, and data type. Medical imaging file formats (DICOM, Nifti, Minc). Basics of image processing for biomedical applications: statistical characterization, filtering, enhancement, registration, edge detection, spectral representation, transformations. Applications to medical images including x-rays, computed tomography (CT), MRI and functional MRI, SPECT and PET. Pre-requisite: COME 381