Real-Time Medical Image Processing

Edited by Morio Onoe., Kendall Preston, Jr.Azriel Rosenfeld

ISBN 10: 0306405512 / ISBN 13: 9780306405518

Published by Plenum Press, New York & London, 1980

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The boards and dust wrapper are in good condition- the back bottom corner of the board is bumped as is the top and tail of the spine. The spine of the dustwrapper is sunned to white. Light edge wear on the dust wrapper, heavier on the corners and top and tail of the spine.Binding tight and square, contents clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real-Time Medical Image Processing
• Publisher: Plenum Press, New York & London
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306405512
• ISBN 13: 9780306405518
• Binding: HardBack
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine

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Synopsis

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.