Physics and Analysis of Medical Images I
Miscellaneous Information
Additional References:
Webb, S., The Physics of Medical Imaging, Adam Hilger, New York,
1990. This book was written at a nontechnical level, but is a wonderfully
readable collection of facts to know.
Hendee, W. and R. Ritenour, Medical Imaging Physics, 3rd ed., Mosby
Year Book, St. Louis, 1992.
Ter-Pogossian, M., The Physical Aspects of Diagnostic Radiology,
Harper and Row, Hagerstown, 1967. Most of the quantitative analysis of
the effects of radiological procedures was first reported by Ter-Pogossian.
This is the most-often cited reference in the field.
Russ, J.C., The Image Processing Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton,
1992. This is a very recent handbook that demonstrates to the user the
advantages and disadvantages of the different image enhancement techniques.
This book can be used to generate ideas on how to improve the quality of
an image. One would have to consult another book in order to implement
the enhancement algorithm.
Ballard, D.H. and C.M. Brown, Computer Vision, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, 1982. This text is a classic; it has been used by many image processors.
The book covers computer vision, image formation, early image enhancement,
boundary detection. region growing, texture analysis, motion analysis,
geometric structures, relational structures, and graph-theoretic algorithms.
This is a great text book.
Rosenfeld, A. and A.C. Kak, Digital Picture Processing, 2nd Edition,
Vols. 1 and 2, Academic Press, New York, 1982. This is a wonderful set
of books for learning the mathematical bases for many of the currently-used
techniques.
Macovski, A., Medical Imaging Systems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, 1983. This book concisely covers the mathematics of basic medical
image processing.
Pavlidis, T., Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing, Computer
Science Press,, Potomac, 1982. A wonderful collection of useful algorithms
for processing images, including reconstruction algorithms, filtering,
region growing, curve displays, thinning, surface fitting, polygonal mathematics,
and the creating of 3-D displays. A good reference for implementing many
of the algorithms discussed in textbooks. Unfortunately, the book is out
of print.
Jain, A., Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall,
1989. A true text book on many basic and advanced aspects of imaging. Topics
include mathematical preliminaries, image sampling, image transforms, image
modeling, image enhancement, filtering and restoration, image analysis,image
reconstruction, and image compression.
Nye, A., XLIB Programming Manual, 3rd Edition, Vol. 1, O'Reilly
Assoc., 1992.
Johnson E.F. and K. Reichard, X Windows Applications Programming,
MIS Press, 1989.
Shapiro, L. and A. Rosenfeld. Computer Vision and Image Processing,
Academic Press, Boston, 1992. A collection of papers and notes on image-level
operations (e.g., corner detection and localization), edge detectors, pattern
recognition, and 3-D shape reconstruction.
Collins, S.M. and D.J. Skorton (Eds.), Cardiac Imaging and Image Processing,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986. A collection of tutorials on the physics,
equipment and application of imaging to cardiology. This is written for
the non-specialist, but is a good review for the expert.
Sonka, M. V. Hlavac, and R. Boyle. Image Processing, Analysis, and
machine Vision, Chapman and Hall, 1993.
Pykett, I., et al. "Principles of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging,"
Radiology, vol 143:157-168, 1982.
Hinshaw, W. and A. Lent. "An introduction to NMR imaging: From the Block
equation to the Imaging equation," Proc. IEEE, vol. 71:338-350, 1983. (This
is the best, in my opinion, readable mathematical treatment of the subject.)
Block, F. "Nuclear induction," Phys. Rev., vol.70:460-474, 1946.
Pykett, I., "NMR imaging in medicine," Scient. Am., May, 1982.
Chen C.-N. and D. Holt. Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Technology,
Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1989.
Cho, Z.-H., J. Jones, M. Singh. Foundations of Medical Imaging,
Wiley, New York, 1993.