Methods in Image AnalysisLecture 1 The Poets Eye.pptVIP

Methods in Image AnalysisLecture 1 – The Poet’s Eye CMU Robotics Institute 16-725 U. Pitt Bioengineering 2630 Spring Term, 2004 16-725/BioE 2630 Course Structure Review our website Very project oriented ITK community (coming to CMU, 6/5/03) Strong computer vision community at CMU Analogy to the factory floor Computer vision works there, discard irregulars In medicine, every patient is irregular Methods in Medical Image Analysis There is a patient out there. Medicine is a war: Surgeons are the marines. Anesthesiologists are the air force. Psychiatrists are the diplomats Radiologists (and Pathologists) are reconnaissance. Life--death decisions on insufficient information. “Truth” is whether the patient recovers. The “Practice” not the “Theory” of medicine. Shadow Program Model of a Modern Radiologist Methods in Medical Image Analysis Simultaneous measurements on a spatial grid. Many modalities: mainly EM radiation and sound. Bremsstrahlung Electron rapidly decelerates at heavy metal target, giving off X-Rays. X-Ray and Fluoroscopic Images Projection of X-Ray silhouette onto a piece of film or detector array, with intervening fluorescent screen. Computerized Tomography From a series of projections, a tomographic image is reconstructed using Filtered Back Projection. Mass Spectrometer Radioactive isotope separated by difference in inertia while bending in magnetic field. Nuclear Medicine Gamma camera for creating image of radioactive target. Camera is rotated around patient in SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography). Phased Array Ultrasound Ultrasound beam formed and steered by controlling the delay between the elements of the transducer array. Real Time 3D Ultrasound Positron Emission Tomography Positron-emitting organic compounds create pairs of high energy photons that are detected synchronously. Other Imaging Modalities MRI (will review later, with Fourier lecture) OCT Pathology (in addition to Radiology) Other modalities coming down the