Medical Image Processing in a Clinical Environment - A Medical Physicists Perspective
Wolfgang Birkfellner (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University Vienna - www.meduniwien.ac.at/mip)
Since the development of medical imaging devices such as x-ray, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, applied mathematics on the data acquired by these machines - commonly referred to as medical image processing. The development of this specialty, which originated in a strict sense from the development of tomographic imaging in the early 1970ies, has by now developed far beyond the radiologic field, with numerous applications in therapeutic fields such as surgery and radiotherapy as well as preclinical research in pharmaceutical research. In this talk I will try to highlight applications of image processing in medicine together with their formal background.