BME 4210 - Medical Imaging Systems

• Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental multi-dimensional systems and signals concepts
• Demonstrate an understanding of general image characteristics across various imaging modalities
• Demonstrate an understanding of physics fundamentals of various imaging modalities
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a basic x-ray radiography system works, and how images are created and analyzed
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a basic CT system works, and how images are created and analyzed
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a basic MRI system works, and how images are created and analyzed
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a basic ultrasound system works, and how images are created and analyzed
• Demonstrate an understanding of how basic nuclear medicine systems (e.g., PET and SPECT) work, and how images are created and analyzed
• Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental image processing methodologies
• Proficiently apply fundamental image processing methodologies to medical images
• Proficiently apply MATLAB and Anatomage Table (or other modern computer-aided tools) to perform image analysis and visualization

• Linear and time-invariant systems
• Signal transformations
• Impulse response function and convolution
• Medical imaging phantom design

• History of medical imaging and development of medical imaging systems
• Fundamentals of multi-dimensional systems
• Fundamentals of multi-dimensional signals (images) and image characteristics
• DICOM standard
• Medical imaging phantoms
• Fundamentals of image processing such as spatial and frequency domain representation, multi-dimensional FFT, image histograms, minimum and maximum intensity images, thresholding, spatial filtering, image segmentation, image registration and other related methodologies
• Fundamentals of x-ray physics
• Radiation and radiation units
• X-Ray radiography systems
• Angiography imaging
• Computed Tomography (CT) systems
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Ultrasound
• Nuclear Medicine Imaging (PET, SPECT, Gamma Camera systems)
• Artificial Intelligence applications in medical imaging

• Image visualization, basic quantification, and filtering
• Image reconstruction
• Image registration
• Image segmentation
• Frequency analysis of medical images
• Deep learning in medical imaging
• Phantom design, 3D printing, scanning, and image analysis and quantification