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Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com PRINCIPLES AND ADVANCED METHODS IN MEDICAL IMAGING AND IMAGE ANALYSIS ATAM P DHAWAN New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA H K HUANG University of Southern California, USA DAE-SHIK KIM Boston University, USA World Scientific NEW JERSEY LONDON SINGAPORE BEIJING SHANGHAI HONG KONG TAIPEI CHENNAI
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Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com To My wife, Nilam, for her support and patience; and my sons, Anirudh and Akshay, for their quest for learning. (Atam P Dhawan) To My wife, Fong, for her support; and my daughter, Cammy; and my son, Tilden, for their young wisdom. (HK Huang) To My daughter, Zeno, for her curiosity (Dae-Shik Kim) v
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Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Preface and Acknowledgments We are pleased to bring Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis, a volume of contributory chapters, to the scientific community. The book is a compilation of carefully crafted chapters written by leading researchers in the field of medical imaging they have put in a great deal of effort in contributing the various chapters. This book can be used as a research reference or a text book for graduate level courses in biomedical engineering and medical sciences. The book is a unique combination of chapters describing the principles as well as state-of-the-art advanced methods in medical imaging and image analysis for selected applications. Though computerized medical imaging has a very wide spectrum of applications in diagnostic radiology and medical research, we have selected a subset of important imaging modalities with specific applications that are significant in medical sciences and clinical practice. The topics covered in the chapters have been developed with a natural progression of understanding, keeping in mind future technological advances that are expected to have a major impact in clinical practice and the understanding of complex pathologies. We hope that this book will provide a unique learning experience from theoretical concepts to advanced methods and applications to researchers, clinicians and students. vii
viii Preface and Acknowledgments Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com We are very grateful to our contributors who are internationally renowned experts and experienced researchers in their respective fields within the wide spectrum of medical imaging and computerized medical image analysis. We also gracefully acknowledge the support provided by the editorial board and staff members of World Scientific Publishing. Special thanks to Ms CT Ang for her guidance and patience in preparing this book. We hope that readers will find this book useful in providing a concise version of important principles, advances, and applications in medical imaging and image analysis. Atam P Dhawan HK Huang Dae-Shik Kim
Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Contributors Walter J Akers, PhD Staff Scientist, Optical Radiology Laboratory Department of Radiology Washington University School of Medicine University of Washington at St Louis Elsa Angelini, PhD Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications Paris, France Leonard Berliner, MD Department of Radiology New York Methodist Hospital, NY Sharon Bloch, PhD Optical Radiology Laboratory, Department of Radiology Washington University School of Medicine University of Washington at St Louis Christos Davatzikos, PhD Director, Section of Biomedical Image Analysis Associate Professor, Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania ix
x Contributors Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Mathieu De Craene, PhD Computational Imaging Lab Department of Information and Communication Technologies Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Atam P Dhawan, PhD Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Qi Duan, PhD Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University Alejandro F Frangi, PhD Computational Imaging Lab Department of Information and Communication Technologies Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Shunichi Homma, MD Margaret Millikin Hatch Professor Department of Medicine Columbia University HK Huang, DSc Professor and Director, Imaging Informatics Division Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California Dae-Shik Kim, PhD Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Boston University School of Medicine
Contributors xi Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Elisa E Konofagou, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University Andrew Laine, PhD Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University Angela R Laird, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio Maria YY Law, PhD Associate Professor Department of Health Technology and Informatics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Heinz U Lemke, PhD Research Professor, Department of Radiology University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Guang Li, PhD Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology Branch National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland Brent J Liu, PhD Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of Informatics Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California
xii Contributors Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Tianming Liu, PhD Center for Bioinformatics Harvard Medical School Department of Radiology Brigham and Women s Hospital, MA Sachin Patwardhan, PhD Research Scientist, Department of Radiology Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology University of Washington, St Louis Xiaochuan Pan, PhD Professor Department of Radiology Cancer Research Center The University of Chicago Itamar Ronen, PhD Assistant Professor Center for Biomedical Imaging Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Boston University School of Medicine Yulin Song, PhD Associate Professor Department of Radiology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New Jersey Song Wang, PhD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Pat Zanzonico, PhD Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York
Contributors xiii Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Zheng Zhou, PhD Manager Imaging Processing and Informatics Lab Department of Radiology University of Southern California Xiang Sean Zhou, PhD Senior Staff Scientist, Program Manager Computer Aided Diagnosis and Therapy Solutions Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., Malvern PA Lionel Zuckier, MD Head, Nuclear Medicine Department of Radiology New Jersey University for Medicine and Dentistry
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Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com Contents Preface and Acknowledgments... Contributors... vii ix 1. Introduction to Medical Imaging and Image Analysis: A Multidisciplinary Paradigm... 1 Atam P Dhawan, HK Huang and Dae-Shik Kim Part I. Principles of Medical Imaging and Image Analysis 2. Medical Imaging and Image Formation... 9 Atam P Dhawan 3. Principles of X-ray Anatomical Imaging Modalities... 29 Brent J Liu and HK Huang 4. Principles of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Modalities... 63 Lionel S Zuckier 5. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging... 99 Itamar Ronen and Dae-Shik Kim 6. Principles of Ultrasound Imaging Modalities... 129 Elisa Konofagou 7. Principles of Image Reconstruction Methods... 151 Atam P Dhawan 8. Principles of Image Processing Methods... 173 Atam P Dhawan xv
xvi Contents Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com 9. Image Segmentation and Feature Extraction... 197 Atam P Dhawan 10. Clustering and Pattern Classification... 229 Atam P Dhawan and Shuangshuang Dai Part II. Recent Advances in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis 11. Recent Advances in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging... 267 Dae-Shik Kim 12. Recent Advances in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging... 289 Dae-Shik Kim and Itamar Ronen 13. Fluorescence Molecular Imaging: Microscopic to Macroscopic... 311 Sachin V Patwardhan, Walter J Akers and Sharon Bloch 14. Tracking Endocardium Using Optical Flow Along Iso-Value Curve... 337 Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma and Andrew Laine 15. Some Recent Developments in Reconstruction Algorithms for Tomographic Imaging... 361 Chien-Min Kao, Emil Y Sidky, Patrick La Rivière and Xiaochuan Pan 16. Shape-Based Reconstruction from Nevoscope Optical Images of Skin Lesions... 393 Song Wang and Atam P Dhawan 17. Multimodality Image Registration and Fusion... 413 Pat Zanzonico 18. Wavelet Transform and Its Applications in Medical Image Analysis... 437 Atam P Dhawan
Contents xvii Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com 19. Multiclass Classification for Tissue Characterization... 455 Atam P Dhawan 20. From Pairwise Medical Image Registration to Populational Computational Atlases... 481 M De Craene and AF Frangi 21. Grid Methods for Large Scale Medical Image Archiving and Analysis... 517 HK Huang, Zheng Zhou and Brent Liu 22. Image-Assisted Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support in Radiation Therapy Planning... 545 Brent J Liu 23. Lossless Digital Signature Embedding Methods for Assuring 2D and 3D Medical Image Integrity... 573 Zheng Zhou, HK Huang and Brent J Liu Part III. Medical Imaging Applications, Case Studies and Future Trends 24. The Treatment of Superficial Tumors Using Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy... 599 Yulin Song and Maria Chan 25. Image Guidance in Radiation Therapy... 635 Maria YY Law 26. Functional Brain Mapping and Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis... 663 Angela R Laird, Jack L Lancaster and Peter T Fox 27. Dynamic Human Brain Mapping and Analysis: From Statistical Atlases to Patient-Specific Diagnosis and Analysis... 677 Christos Davatzikos
xviii Contents Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com 28. Diffusion Tensor Imaging Based Analysis of Neurological Disorders... 703 Tianming Liu and Stephen TC Wong 29. Intelligent Computer Aided Interpretation in Echocardiography: Clinical Needs and Recent Advances... 725 Xiang Sean Zhou and Bogdan Georgescu 30. Current and Future Trends in Radiation Therapy... 745 Yulin Song and Guang Li 31. IT Architecture and Standards for a Therapy Imaging and Model Management System (TIMMS)... 783 Heinz U Lemke and Leonard Berliner 32. Future Trends in Medical and Molecular Imaging... 829 Atam P Dhawan, HK Huang and Dae-Shik Kim Index... 845