Thomas M. Deserno (ed): Biomedical Image Processing

Excerpt

Medical and biomedical image processing textbooks have been published over the years; many of which are not comprehensible for anyone other than expert image processing researchers. The leadership of the International SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging and the Springer-Verlag Series Editor of Biological and Medical Physics, Medical Engineering recognized the need for a textbook that could be used by both novices and experts to advance the field. They contacted Thomas Deserno with the idea of expanding some of the topics presented at the International SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging to compile a book. He convinced 47 researchers, scientists, and graduate students to write chapters for the book Biomedical Image Processing (Fig. 1). He edited each chapter so the book has a uniform appearance, not a collection of individual papers, and contains useful information for anyone interested in medical and biomedical image processing. I am not an expert in this field and found myself entranced with the clear and concise definitions and descriptions of image processing techniques. This should be a reference for anyone in the field from the certified imaging informatics professionals to the interested imaging technologists, students, radiologists, scientists, and researchers.

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