Degree in Health Engineering La Salle Campus Barcelona

Degree in Health Engineering

Lead the technological advances that will define the medicine of the future.

Medical Image Processing

Description
Medical imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. For this reason, it is necessary that students know the basic principles of digital image processing, with special emphasis on the characteristics of the different medical imaging modalities.
Type Subject
Tercer - Obligatoria
Semester
First
Course
3
Credits
6.00

Titular Professors

Previous Knowledge

Signal processing in the time and frequency domain

Objectives

Students acquire the knowledge and develop the skills indicated below:
1. Understand the concepts of basic digital image formation, acquisition and processing in the spatial and frequency domains.
2. Understand the different modalities of medical imaging.
3. Understand the processes of extracting features from an image to perform segmentation, detection and classification processes.
4. Understand and know how to apply the fundamental tools to process medical images.

Contents

1. Fundamentals of image processing
2. Image segmentation, detection and classification
3. Medical imaging modalities
4. Applications of medical image processing

Methodology

The subject is taught following a theoretical-practical methodology. Practical exercises will be proposed during the development of the topics, which will allow the concepts presented in these topics to be put into practice.
In addition, group practices will be carried out in which image processing challenges will be posed and solved following a hackathon approach .

Evaluation

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Evaluation Criteria

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Basic Bibliography

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Additional Material

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