Image Processing in Radiology: Current Applications

Abstract

Technical Basis of Image Processing -- US Image Acquisition / Elena Bozzi, Laura Crocetti and Riccardo Lencioni -- 3D MRI Acquisition: Technique / Nickolas Papanikolaou and Spyros Karampekios -- MDCT Image Acquisition to Enable Optimal 3D Data Evaluation / Michael Macari -- Segmentation of Radiological Images / Nigel W. John -- Elaboration of the Images in the Spatial Domain. 2D Graphics / Paolo Marcheschi -- 3D Medical Image Processing / Luigi Landini, Vincenzo Positano and Maria Filomena Santarelli -- Virtual Endoscopy / Paola Vagli, Emanuele Neri, Francesca Turini, Francesca Cerri [and 3 others] -- 3D Image Fusion / Alan Jackson, Neil A. Thacker and Stavros M. Stivaros -- Image Processing on Diagnostic Workstations / Bart M. ter Haar Romeny -- Image Processing: Clinical Applications -- Temporal Bone / Paola Vagli, Francesca Turini, Francesca Cerri and Emanuele Neri -- Virtual Endoscopy of the Paranasal Sinuses / Joachim Kettenbach, Wolfgang Birkfellner and Patrik Rogalla -- Dental and Maxillofacial Applications / Stephen J. Golding and Stephen R. Watt-Smith -- Virtual Laryngoscopy / Joachim Kettenbach, Wolfgang Birkfellner, Erich Sorantin and Andrik J. Aschoff -- Thorax / Henning Meyer and Patrik Rogalla -- Cardiovascular Applications / Christoph R. Becker -- From the Esophagus to the Small Bowel / Franco Iafrate, Pasquale Paolantonio, Carlo Nicola De Cecco [and 3 others] -- CT and MR Colonography / Daniele Regge, Teresa Maria Gallo, Cristiana Laudi, Giovanni Galatola and Vincenzo Tartaglia -- Techniques of Virtual Dissection of the Colon Based on Spiral CT Data / Erich Sorantin, Emese Balogh MS, Anna Vilanova i Bartrolí, Kálmán Palágyi [and 3 others] / Unfolded Cube Projection of the Colon / Ayso H. de Vries, Frans M. Vos MSc, Iwo W.O. Serlie and Jaap Stoker -- Liver / Laura Crocetti, Elena Bozzi, Clotilde Della Pina, Riccardo Lencioni and Carlo Bartolozzi -- Pancreas / Salvatore Mazzeo, Valentina Battaglia and Carla Cappelli -- Biliary Tract / Piero Boraschi and Francescamaria Donati -- Urinary Tract / Piero Boraschi, Francescamaria Donati and Simonetta Salemi -- Musculoskeletal System / Anne Cotten, Benoît Sauer and Alain Blum-Moyse -- Special Topics -- Clinical Applications of 3D Imaging in Emergencies / Michael Rieger -- Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Clinical Applications in the Breast / Toni W. Vomweg -- Computer Aided Diagnosis: Clinical Applications in CT Colonography / Hiroyuki Yoshida and Abraham H. Dachman -- Ultrasound-, CT- and MR-Guided Robot-Assisted Interventions / Joachim Kettenbach, Gernot Kronreif, Andreas Melzer, Gabor Fichtinger [and 2 others] -- Virtual Liver Surgery Planning / Erich Sorantin, Georg Werkgartner, Reinhard Beichel, Alexander Bornik [and 3 others].