Medical Statistics, Computing and Image Processing

Introduction to Biomarkers. Introduction to Medical Imaging Systems and Medical Images. Detection of signal/image and digitization (methodology of signal and image sampling). Deterioration sources of signals/images (noise, signal to noise ratio). Measuring methods of the precision of the information of signal/image (PSF, LSF, etc.). Recovery/processing of signals/images information (filters, etc.). Processing of images from different imaging systems with emphasis on techniques and algorithms for the improvement, segmentation and three-dimensional imaging of medical information. Clinical applications of medical image processing with emphasis on alignment and fusion of medical images in radiotherapy.