Module CS4370-KP04, CS4370

Advanced Techniques of Medical Image Processing (FVMB2014)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

not available anymore

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, medical image processing

Classes and lectures:

  • Advanced Techniques of Medical Image Processing (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Advanced Techniques of Medical Image Processing (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 20 hours exam preparation
  • 45 hours in-classroom work
  • 55 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

  • Applications of medical image processing techniques
  • Image superresolution
  • Denoising and inhomogeneity correction
  • Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction
  • Patch-based image processing and non-local means
  • Fusion of (probabilistic) segmentations (NLM and STAPLE)
  • Random-walk algorithm for interactive segmentation
  • Non-linear registration and motion estimation (optical flow)
  • Similarity metrics for multi-modal fusion
  • Introduction into graphical models and discrete optimisation
  • Viterbi algorithm and message passing (stereo depth estimation)
  • Graph cut segmentation and further applications
  • Extraction image features and descriptors
  • Matching of corresponding landmarks

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students know a wide range of methods for segmentation, registration and processing of medical images.
  • They can describe these methods with correct technical terminology.
  • They can transfer image processing techniques into energy minimisation problems.
  • They can solve minimisation problems using sparse linear systems.
  • They understand methodological relations between different applications and techniques.
  • They understand the transfer of continuous problems into the discrete domain.
  • They understand solvers for discrete optimisation problems.
  • They can compare different algorithms to another and make suitable problem-related choices of methods.
  • They have an extended overview of application areas for medical image analysis.

Grading through:

  • Written or oral exam as announced by the examiner

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • H. Handels : Medizinische Bildverarbeitung Stuttgart: Vieweg &Teubner 2009
  • M. Sonka, V. Hlavac, R. Boyle : Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision 2nd edition. Pacific Grove: PWS Publishing 1998

Language:

  • offered only in German

Last Updated:

17.07.2019