SCIENZE INFORMATICHE E GESTIONE DELLE IMMAGINI

7 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE STELLA - Module ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING - ING-INF/06 - 2 CFU
GIUSEPPE STELLA - Module Information processing systems: image formation - ING-INF/05 - 2 CFU
GIUSEPPE LANZA - Module PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES - MED/50 - 3 CFU

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

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