SCIENZE INFORMATICHE E GESTIONE DELLE IMMAGINI

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff
  • ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATIC BIOENGINEERING: Giuseppe Stella
  • Information processing systems: image formation: Giuseppe Stella
  • PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE OF IMAGES: Giuseppe Lanza
Credit Value: 7
Taught classes: 49 hours
Term / Semester:

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”, 3rd 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