Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications

Abstract

The history of medical imaging technology is embedded within the history of visual perception itself. Visual perception exists at the multiple interstices of science, ethics, art, and law. As the panorama of how and what humans can see is continually transformed by technical innovation, creative application, and cultural permission, there are concomitant transformations in conceptions of disease, privacy, beauty, and legal evidence. Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications succeeds in mapping out a small but essential region of this ever-shifting landscape, namely the core competencies and practical skills that are required by end-users of digital imaging technology in the health-care fields.