DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Bachelor's Degree in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year

SCIENZE INFORMATICHE E GESTIONE DELLE IMMAGINI

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING
  

  Provide the student with the tools to deepen the techniques and methods of detection in Diagnostic Imaging in radiodiagnostics, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy fields.

• Information processing systems: image formation
  

  The course aims to make the student familiar with the formation process of analog and digital images, in order to provide the tools for evaluating the goodness of an imaging system, the requirements necessary for achieving a certain image quality degree and the main approaches for image enhancement and noise/artifact removal.

• PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES
  

  To know the general techniques and principles underlying the production, processing, and management of body images.

  To examine and evaluate the production of body images according to the different techniques of medical radiology.

  To acquire knowledge on the management and archive of bioimages

Course Structure

• ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING
  

  frontal teaching

• Information processing systems: image formation
  

  Frontal teaching

• PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES
  

  Interactive frontal lessons

  Any seminars

Detailed Course Content

• ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING
  

  General information on detectors and properties. Fundamentals of detection, Equivalent electrical circuit of the detector. P-N junction of detectors. Various types of noise in the detectors. Signal to noise ratio. Amplifiers and preamplifiers. ADC. QDC. Fourier series concept, Fourier series examples of some simple periodic signals. Transformation of a non-periodic signal, continuous spectrum, Sinc function, limit processes.

• Information processing systems: image formation
  

  Introduction to images. Analog and digital quantities. Examples of applications for digital images with emphasis on the medical field. Components of a vision system

  Human visual perception. Light and the electromagnetic spectrum. Image formation models. Image sensing. Sampling and quantization. Resolution and scaling. Aliasing and Moiré effect. Color representation. Color spaces.

  Techniques for image transformation. Histogram analysis. Spatial filters. 2D Fourier transform. Frequency analysis and transformation.

• PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES
  

  Introduction to imaging diagnostic techniques and body imaging

  X-rays and radiological imaging techniques

  Computed tomography techniques

  Angiography techniques

  Radioisotypic techniques

  Ultrasound techniques

  Magnetic resonance techniques

  Overview on contrast agents in imaging diagnostic techniques

  The radiology technician and bioimaging

  Principles of management and archives of bioimages

Textbook Information

• ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING
  

  Diagnostic Radiology Physics - A Handbook for Teachers and Students - D.R. Dance S. Christofides A.D.A. Maidment I.D. McLean K.H. Ng Technical Editors

• Information processing systems: image formation
  

  Gonzalez, Woods, “Digital image processing”, 3^rd ed., Prentice Hall

• PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES
  

  Giorgio Cittadini, Giuseppe Cittadini, Francesco Sardanelli, Giuliano Mariani, Renzo Corvò. Diagnostica per immagini e radioterapia. Ediz. illustrata. Edra, 2015