ENEE739R/CMSC828R Medical Image Processing and Understanding
Course Basics This graduate course will cover the following topics: computed tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and magnetic resonance imaging modalities, algorithms for processing and understanding medical images, including, reconstruction, segmentation, and registration with emphasis on non-rigid models.
 
Time: 11:00am -12:15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays, Spring 2004
Venue: CSI 2118
Instructor: Prof. Rama Chellappa ( rama@cfar.umd.edu ), Room 4411, A. V. Williams Bldg
Office Hours: 12:30pm - 2:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays
Textbooks:
  • (LL) Z.P. Liang and P.C. Lauterbur, Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Signal Processing Perspective.
  • (KS) A. C. Kak and M. Slaney, Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging.
Recommended Textbooks:
  • Handbook of Medical Image Processing and Analysis, Edited by Issac Bankman, SPIE 2000.
  • Z.H. Cho,  J. Jones and M. Singh, Foundations of Medical Imaging.
  • K.Kirk Kirk Shung, M.B. Smith and B. Tsui, Principles of Medical Imaging.
  • Recent papers from the literature will also be discussed.
Grading Policy: Projects 30%, Midterm 30%, Final 40%.
Course Schedule
Lecture 1 01/26/04 Introduction; Section 2.2 of Kak and Slaney (KS)
Lecture 2 01/28/04 3.1, 3.2 of KS
Lecture 3 02/02/04 3.3 of KS
Lecture 4 02/04/04 3.3, 5.1 of KS
Lecture 5 02/09/04 3.4 of KS
Lecture 6 02/11/04 3.5, 3.6 of KS
Lecture 7 02/16/04 Chapter 4 of KS
Lecture 8 02/18/04 Chapter 7 of KS
Lecture 9 02/23/24 Magnetic resonance (MR) signal generation - 1 This and the next many lectures are from Liang and Lauterbur (LL)
Lecture 10 02/25/04 MR signal generation - 2
Lecture 11 03/01/04 MR signal detection - 3
Lecture 12 03/03/04 MR signal characteristics
Lecture 13 03/08/04 Midterm
Lecture 14 03/10/04 MRI localization - 1
Lecture 15 03/15/04 MRI localization -2
Lecture 16 03/17/04 Image reconstruction revisited
Lecture 17 03/29/04 Image contrast
Lecture 18 03/31/04 Image reconstruction artifacts
Lecture 19 04/05/04 Fast scan imaging
Lecture 20 04/07/04 Constrained reconstruction
Lecture 21 04/12/04 Medical image enhancement - 1
Lecture 22 04/14/04 Medical image enhancement - 2
Lecture 23 04/19/04 Medical image segmentation - 1
Lecture 24 04/21/04 Medical image segmentation - 2
Lecture 25 04/26/04 Medical image registration - 1
Lecture 26 04/28/04 Medical image registration - 2
Lecture 27 05/03/04 Medical image fusion - 1
Lecture 28 05/05/04 Medical image fusion - 2
Lecture 29 05/10/04 Medical image sequence analysis - 1
Lecture 30 05/12/04 Medical image sequence analysis - 2
Course Projects  TBD
Course Notices
  • NEW! 01/27/2004 I no longer maintain this website. Please go to http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~rama (following the links for 'Course work' for updates.
  • NEW! 01/27/2004 Please send your name and email to akunuri@cfar.umd.edu. She will create an email list for this class. Please broadcast this to other classmates.
Accessory Links
  1. ENEE739J: Image Understanding ( Spring 2001, Spring 2003 )