Hotspots on modern medical imaging and image analysis

Abstract

Vision information processing (VIP) is the important supports of image processing. Currently, VIP has become as a leader direction in remote sense image processing (which mostly serves the government and military) and in medical Image processing (which widely serves a great numbers of patients). Medical imaging and medical image analysis techniques are the hotspots of the biomedical engineering. On one hand, different from optical imaging, modern medical imaging such as CT, MR and PET have the very complex imaging mechanisms with deep mathematic fundamental and are entirely different with each other. Advanced and novel precise techniques in medical imagine are also needed, such as design of various filters, calibration techniques for different artifacts, fast imaging methods and low dose CT reconstruction. New important applications of medical imaging are still in progress with high speed, which include special imaging technique to some diseases, multi-functional imaging equipments and special imaging devices for brain or hand. On the other hand, medical image analysis such as image segmentation and image registration as the basic medical image processing still require some novel techniques to make it more effectively. Fuzziness of physiology estimation, stochastic behavior of imaging process, and ill condition behavior of mathematic model may be the dispute problems for a long time. For more convenient, we are to quite our recent research results to illustrate above the hotspots.