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COMP 448/548: Medical Image Analysis

Spring 23

Course Description

Imaging has been increasingly used in medicine and biology research. Its primary use is to visualize the human body at different levels (e.g., at organ, tissue, cell, and molecular levels) using different imaging modalities (e.g., those in radiology, pathology, dermatology, ophthalmology, microscopy, and genetics). The explosive growth of this use necessitates to develop computational methods to (semi) automatically analyze images produced by these modalities.

The objective of this course is to provide students with the basic concepts and computational and mathematical methods in medical image analysis. Topics covered in this course include

  • An overview of medical imaging modalities,
  • An overview of medical image analysis applications and their challenges,
  • Traditional image processing techniques for medical image analysis,
  • Deep learning for medical image analysis, and
  • Case studies.

Lectures:  (Slides and reading material will be available)

TOPICS

CONTENTS

Introduction

[ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 ]

Introduction, an overview of imaging modalities, an overview of applications and challenges in medical image analysis

Filters

[ Filters ]

Filters for medical image enhancement

Medical image segmentation

[ Part 1 | Part 2 | Texture analysis ]

Region-based segmentation, edge-based segmentation, thresholding, clustering, texture analysis, distance transforms, mathematical morphology, segmentation evaluation, case study on cell segmentation in microscopy images

Medical image representation

[ Feature extraction ]

Feature extraction for medical images, morphological features, textural features, structural features

Medical image classification

[ Classifiers incl. neural networks ]

Basics of classifiers, basics of artificial neural networks, classifier evaluation

Deep learning

[ Convolutional neural networks ]

Basics of convolutional neural networks, convolutional neural networks for medical image classification

Deep learning

[ Dense prediction networks ]

Encoder-decoder networks, semantic segmentation in biopsy images, tumor/organ segmentation in CT images, retinal layer segmentation in OCT images, multi-task networks for instance segmentation in microscopy images

Deep learning

[ Generative adversarial networks ]

Generative modes for medical image synthesis, reconstruction and artifact correction

Deep learning

[ Multiple-instance learning |
Self-supervised learning ]

Multiple-instance learning and self-supervised learning for medical image analysis