Medical Image Analysis

1st Edition - September 20, 2023
Editors: Alejandro Frangi, Jerry Prince, Milan Sonka
Language: English
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Medical imaging is increasingly at the base of many breakthroughs in biomedical sciences, becoming a fundamental enabling technology of biomedical scientific progress. Medical Image Analysis presents practical knowledge on medical image computing and analysis and is written by top educators and experts in the field. This text is a modern, practical, broad, and self-contained reference that conveys a mix of essential methodological concepts within different medical domains, reflecting the nature of the discipline today, making it suitable as a course text and a self-learning resource.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Section editors
Editors
Contributors
Preface
Nomenclature
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introductory topics
Chapter 1: Medical imaging modalities
Abstract
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Image quality
1.3. Modalities and contrast mechanisms
1.4. Clinical scenarios
1.5. Exercises
References
Chapter 2: Mathematical preliminaries
Abstract
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Imaging: definitions, quality and similarity measures
2.3. Vector and matrix theory results
2.4. Linear processing and transformed domains
2.5. Calculus
2.6. Notions on shapes
2.7. Exercises
References
Chapter 3: Regression and classification
Abstract
Nomenclature
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Multidimensional linear regression
3.3. Treating non-linear problems with linear models
3.4. Exercises
References
Chapter 4: Estimation and inference
Abstract
4.1. Introduction: what is estimation?
4.2. Sampling distributions
4.3. Estimation. Data-based methods
4.4. A working example
4.5. Estimation. Bayesian methods
4.6. Monte Carlo methods
4.7. Exercises
References
Part II: Image representation and processing
Chapter 5: Image representation and 2D signal processing
Abstract
5.1. Image representation
5.2. Images as 2D signals
5.3. Frequency representation of 2D signals
5.4. Image sampling
5.5. Image interpolation
5.6. Image quantization
5.7. Further reading
5.8. Exercises
References
Chapter 6: Image filtering: enhancement and restoration
Abstract
6.1. Medical imaging filtering
6.2. Point-to-point operations
6.3. Spatial operations
6.4. Operations in the transform domain
6.5. Model-based filtering: image restoration
6.6. Further reading
6.7. Exercises
References
Chapter 7: Multiscale and multiresolution analysis
Abstract
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The image pyramid
7.3. The Gaussian scale-space
7.4. Properties of the Gaussian scale-space
7.5. Scale selection
7.6. The scale-space histogram
7.7. Exercises
References
Part III: Medical image segmentation
Chapter 8: Statistical shape models
Abstract
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Representing structures with points
8.3. Comparing shapes
8.4. Aligning two shapes
8.5. Aligning a set of shapes
8.6. Building shape models
8.7. Statistical models of texture
8.8. Combined models of appearance (shape and texture)
8.9. Image search
8.10. Exhaustive search
8.11. Alternating approaches
8.12. Constrained local models
8.13. 3D models
8.14. Recapitulation
8.15. Exercises
References
Chapter 9: Segmentation by deformable models
Abstract
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Boundary evolution
9.3. Forces and speed functions
9.4. Numerical implementation
9.5. Other considerations
9.6. Recapitulation
9.7. Exercises
References
Chapter 10: Graph cut-based segmentation
Abstract
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Graph theory
10.3. Modeling image segmentation using Markov random fields
10.4. Energy function, image term, and regularization term
10.5. Graph optimization and necessary conditions
10.6. Interactive segmentation
10.7. More than two labels
10.8. Recapitulation
10.9. Exercises
References
Part IV: Medical image registration
Chapter 11: Points and surface registration
Abstract
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Points registration
11.3. Surface registration
11.4. Summary
11.5. Exercises
References
Chapter 12: Graph matching and registration
Abstract
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Graph-based image registration
12.3. Exercises
References
Chapter 13: Parametric volumetric registration
Abstract
13.1. Introduction to volumetric registration
13.2. Mathematical concepts
13.3. Parametric volumetric registration
13.4. Exercises
References
Chapter 14: Non-parametric volumetric registration
Abstract
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Mathematical concepts
14.3. Optical flow and related non-parametric methods
14.4. Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping
14.5. Exercises
References
Chapter 15: Image mosaicking
Abstract
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Motion models
15.3. Matching
15.4. Clinical applications
15.5. Recapitulation
15.6. Exercises
References
Part V: Machine learning in medical image analysis
Chapter 16: Deep learning fundamentals
Abstract
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Learning as optimization
16.3. Inductive bias, invariance, and equivariance
16.4. Recapitulation
16.5. Further reading
16.6. Exercises
References
Chapter 17: Deep learning for vision and representation learning
Abstract
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Convolutional neural networks
17.3. Deep representation learning
17.4. Recapitulation
17.5. Further reading
17.6. Exercises
References
Chapter 18: Deep learning medical image segmentation
Abstract
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Convolution-based deep learning segmentation
18.3. Transformer-based deep learning segmentation
18.4. Hybrid deep learning segmentation
18.5. Training efficiency
18.6. Explainability
18.7. Case study
18.8. Recapitulation
18.9. Further reading
18.10. Exercises
References
Chapter 19: Machine learning in image registration
Abstract
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Image registration with deep learning
19.3. Deep neural network architecture
19.4. Supervised image registration
19.5. Unsupervised image registration
19.6. Recapitulation
19.7. Exercises
References
Part VI: Advanced topics in medical image analysis
Chapter 20: Motion and deformation recovery and analysis
Abstract
20.1. Introduction
20.2. The unmet clinical need
20.3. Image-centric flow fields: Eulerian analysis
20.4. Object-centric, locally derived flow fields: Lagrangian analysis
20.5. Multiframe analysis: Kalman filters, particle tracking
20.6. Advanced strategies: model-based analysis and data-driven deep learning
20.7. Evaluation
20.8. Recapitulation
20.9. Exercises
References
Chapter 21: Imaging Genetics
Abstract
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Genome-wide association studies
21.3. Multivariate approaches to imaging genetics
21.4. Exercises
References
Part VII: Large-scale databases
Chapter 22: Detection and quantitative enumeration of objects from large images
Abstract
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Classical image analysis methods
22.3. Learning from data
22.4. Detection and counting of mitotic cells using Bayesian modeling and classical image processing
22.5. Detection and counting of nuclei using deep learning
22.6. Recapitulation
22.7. Exercises
References
Chapter 23: Image retrieval in big image data
Abstract
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Global image descriptors for image retrieval
23.3. Deep learning-based image retrieval
23.4. Efficient indexing strategies
23.5. Exercises
References
Part VIII: Evaluation in medical image analysis
Chapter 24: Assessment of image computing methods
Abstract
24.1. The fundamental methodological concept
24.2. Introduction
24.3. Evaluation for classification tasks
24.4. Learning and validation
24.5. Evaluation for segmentation tasks
24.6. Evaluation of registration tasks
24.7. Intra-rater and inter-rater comparisons
24.8. Recapitulation
24.9. Exercises
References
Index

Alejandro Frangi

Alejandro F. Frangi is the Bicentennial Turing Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, with joint appointments at the Schools of Engineering (Department of Computer Science), Faculty of Science and Engineering, and the School of Health Sciences (Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science), Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. He is a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He holds an Honorary Chair at KU Leuven in the Departments of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) and Cardiovascular Science. He is IEEE Fellow (2014), EAMBES Fellow (2015), SPIE Fellow (2020), MICCAI Fellow (2021), and Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow (2023). The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society awarded him the Early Career Award (2006) and Technical Achievement Award (2021). Professor Frangi’s primary research interests are in medical image analysis and modeling, emphasising machine learning (phenomenological models) and computational physiology (mechanistic models). He is an expert in statistical shape modeling, computational anatomy, and image-based computational physiology, delivering novel insights and impact across various imaging modalities and diseases, particularly on cardiovascular MRI, cerebrovascular MRI/CT/3DRA, and musculoskeletal CT/DXA. He is a co-founder of adsilico Ltd., and his work led to products commercialized by GalgoMedical SA. He has published over 285 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals with over 34,000 citations and has an h-index of 75.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jerry Prince

Jerry L. Prince is the William B. Kouwenhoven Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is Director of the Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory (IACL). He also holds joint appointments in the Departments of Radiology and Radiological Science, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Scienceand Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. He received a 1993 National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, was Maryland’s 1997 Outstanding Young Engineer, and was awarded the MICCAI Society Enduring Impact Award in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow, MICCAI Fellow, and AIMBE Fellow. Previously he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Medical Image Analysis and the Proceedings of the IEEE. He is cofounder of Sonavex, Inc., a biotech company located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His current research interests include image processing, computer vision, and machine learning with primary application to medical imaging, he has published over 500 articles on these subjects.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Milan Sonka

Milan Sonka is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Radiation Oncology, and Lowell C. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Imaging, all at the University of Iowa. He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2008–2014) and as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (2014–2019). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Aided Intervention Society (MICCAI), and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is the Founding Codirector of an interdisciplinary Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (2007–) and Founding Director of the Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (2019–). He is the author of four editions of an image processing textbook, Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision (1993, 1998, 2008, 2014), editor of one of three volumes of the SPIE Handbook of Medical Imaging (2000), past Editor-in-Chief of “IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging” (2009–2014), and past editorial board member of the “Medical Image Analysis” journal. His >700 publications were cited more than 42,000 times, and he has an h-index of 80. He cofounded Medical Imaging Applications LLC and VIDA Diagnostics Inc.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, USA

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