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. 2013 May;9(2):79-88.
doi: 10.2174/1573405611309020002.

Viewpoints on Medical Image Processing: From Science to Application

Thomas M Deserno Né Lehmann  1 , Heinz Handels, Klaus H Maier-Hein Né Fritzsche, Sven Mersmann, Christoph Palm, Thomas Tolxdorff, Gudrun Wagenknecht, Thomas Wittenberg
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Viewpoints on Medical Image Processing: From Science to Application

Thomas M Deserno Né Lehmann et al. Curr Med Imaging Rev. 2013 May.
Free PMC article

Abstract

Medical image processing provides core innovation for medical imaging. This paper is focused on recent developments from science to applications analyzing the past fifteen years of history of the proceedings of the German annual meeting on medical image processing (BVM). Furthermore, some members of the program committee present their personal points of views: (i) multi-modality for imaging and diagnosis, (ii) analysis of diffusion-weighted imaging, (iii) model-based image analysis, (iv) registration of section images, (v) from images to information in digital endoscopy, and (vi) virtual reality and robotics. Medical imaging and medical image computing is seen as field of rapid development with clear trends to integrated applications in diagnostics, treatment planning and treatment.

Keywords: Diffusion-weighted imaging; Digital endoscopy; Image analysis; Image processing; Medical imaging; Model-based imaging; Multi-modal imaging; Registration; Robotics.; Virtual reality; Visualization.

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Word cloud representing the most frequent 100 terms counted from the 469 page long BVM proceedings 2012 [13].
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Trends from BVM workshop proceedings from important terms of processing procedures (left), experimental verification (middle), and application to humans (right).
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PubMed cited papers for search “multimodal AND (imaging OR tomography OR image)”.
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Morphological and functional imaging in clinical and pre-clinical applications.
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Depiction of fiber tracts in the vicinity of a grade IV glioblastoma. The volumetric tracking result (yellow) was overlaid on an axial T2-FLAIR image. Red and green arrows indicate the necrotic tumor core and peritumoral hyperintensity, respectively. In the frontal parts, fiber tracts are still depicted, whereas in the dorsal part, tracts seem to be either displaced or destructed by the tumor.
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Characteristic flow chart of volume-first approach and volume generation with (gray boxes) or without blockface images as intermediate reference modality (Column I). Either the in-vivo volume is post-processed to generate a pseudo-high-resolution volume with propagated section gaps (Column II) or the section volume is post-processed to get a low-resolution stack with filled gaps (Column III) [42].
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Modules to build computer-integrated endoscopy, which enables information gain from image data.
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