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In order to rea1ize real-time medica1 imaging systems, such as are used for computed tomography, automated miscroscopy, dynamic radioisotope imaging, etc., special techno1ogy is required. The high-speed image sour ce must be successfu11y married with the u1tra- high-speed computer. Usua11y the ordinary genera1-purpose computer is found to be inadequate to the image generation and/or image pro- cessing task. The ordinary computer executes instructions at be- tween 1 and 10 million per second. Speed has improved by only about a factor of 10 during the past 20 years. In contrast a typical com- puter used in recognizing blood cell images at 10,000 per hour must execute instructions at between 1 billion and 10 billion per second. Simi1ar execution rates are required to construct a computed tomogra- phy image in real-time (1 to 10 seconds). For the reasons given above, engineering development in image generation and processing in the field of biomedicine has become a discipline unto itself; a discipline wherein the computer engineer is driven to design extremely high-speed machines that far surpass the ordinary computer and the x-ray, radioisotope, or microscope scanner designer must also produce equipment whose specifications extend far beyond the state-of-the-art.

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Author:   Morio Onoe
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781475701234

ISBN 10:   1475701233
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   18 May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

General.- Towards an Image Analysis Center for Medicine.- Cellular Computers and Biomedical Image Processing.- Radiology.- Ultra High-Speed Reconstruction Processors for X-Ray Computed Tomography of the Heart and Circulation.- Computer Analysis of the Ultrasonic Echocardiogram.- Toward Computed Detection of Nodules in Chest Radiographs.- A Parallel Processing System for the Three-Dimensional Display of Serial Tomograms.- Dynamic Computed Tomography for the Heart.- Efficient Analysis of Dynamic Images Using Plans.- Real-Time Image Processing in CT—Convolver and Back Projector.- Histology and Cytology.- Detection of the Spherical Size Distribution of Hormone Secretory Granules from Electron Micrographs.- The Abbott Laboratories ADC-500T.M..- An Approach to Automated Cytotoxicity Testing by Means of Digital Image Processing.- The diff3T.M. Analyzer: A Parallel/Serial Golay Image Processor.- Computer-Aided Tissue Stereology.- Interactive System for Medical Image Processing.- Real-Time Image Processing in Automated Cytology.- The Development of a New Model Cyto-Prescreener for Cervical Cancer.- Author Index.

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