Gates Building, Room 100, 3:15-4:30
Mar 1, 1996

Medical imaging

Prof. Parvati Dev, Stanford Medical School

Seminar abstract

This seminar on medical imaging provides an overview of aspects of digital image formation, processing, storage, manipulation and transformation. It emphasizes the informational aspects of an image, the additional value acquired by an image as it is processed, and the information value of an image in various application contexts.
This seminar is an overview of the Image Informatics class to be offered in the Medical School next year.
Material will be selected from the following topics:
  • Overview of images in medicine: radiographs, fluoroscopy, angiography, computer tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound, nuclear medicine (digital subtraction angiography), PET, functional imaging and image sequences, and photos (dermatology, sections, smears)
  • Image compression
  • Image storage
  • Image viewing: Diagnostic and viewing stations
  • Image transmission and archiving
  • Image databases:
  • Image processing: 2D and 3D
  • Three-dimensional models
  • Images in multimedia
  • Images and the Internet
  • Simulation and virtual reality