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Medical Image Data

Medical image data refers to the array of pixel values in an image, acquired for purposes such as diagnosis, therapy planning, and biomedical research. The quality of medical images is determined by imaging methods, equipment characteristics, and operator-selected variables, while various formats like DICOM and Nifti standardize and facilitate image analysis. Medical imaging modalities include radiography, ultrasonography, MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine, with digitization converting information into a digital format for enhanced data manipulation.

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Medical Image Data

Medical image data refers to the array of pixel values in an image, acquired for purposes such as diagnosis, therapy planning, and biomedical research. The quality of medical images is determined by imaging methods, equipment characteristics, and operator-selected variables, while various formats like DICOM and Nifti standardize and facilitate image analysis. Medical imaging modalities include radiography, ultrasonography, MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine, with digitization converting information into a digital format for enhanced data manipulation.

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Medical Image Data

What isimage data?

▶Basic definition
▶Gives the array of pixel
values in an image.
What isimage data?

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Medical Image Data

▶ Ac quired for different purposes.


▶ Diagnosis

▶ Therapy Planning

▶ Intraoperative Navigation
▶ Biomedic al Research
Medical Image Data

▶ Requirementsof medical image.


▶ the relevant anatomy must be depicted completely,
▶ the resolution of the data should be sufficient to
answer specific diagnostic and therapeutic questions,
▶ the image quality with respect to contrast, signal-to- noise
ratio (SNR) and artifacts must be sufficient to interpret the data
with respect to diagnostic and therapeutic questions.
Medical Image Data
▶ Image Quality
▶ Determined by imaging method
▶ Characteristics of the equipment
▶ Imaging variables selected by operator
▶ Composite of factors:
▶ Contrast

▶ Blur

▶ Noise

▶ Artifacts

▶ distortion

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Medical Image Data
▶ Image data formats
▶ Intended to store particular kinds of digital information.
▶ Most well-known formats have file specifications that
describe exac tly how the data is to be encoded.
▶ GIF

▶ JPEG

▶ TIFF

▶ BMP
▶ PNG
Medical Image Data
▶ Medical image data formats
▶ Divided into categories
▶ Category 1:Formats intended to standardize the images
generated by diagnostic modalities.
▶ DICOM

▶ Category 2: Formats born with the aim to facilitate and


strengthen post-proc essing analysis.
▶ Analyze
▶ Nifti
▶ Minc
Medical Image Data
▶ Medica l image data formats
▶ typicallystored using one of the following two
possible configurations:
▶ 1: Single
file contains both the metadata and
image data, with the metadata stored at the
beginning of the file.
▶ DICO M, Minc , and Nifti
▶ 2: stores the
metadata in one file and the image
data in a second one.
▶ Analyze format
Medical Image Data
▶ Medical Imaging Modalities
▶General Radiography
▶General Ultrasonography
▶Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
▶Computed Tomography (CT)
▶Nuclear Medic ine (PET, PET-CT, SPECT)
▶Radiotherapy Planning
Medical Image Data
▶ Medical Image Digitization
▶Proc ess of c onverting information into
a digital, c omputer-readable format.
▶ X-ray attenuation from DR and C T
▶ Photon energy from PET
▶ RF signals from MRI
Medical Image
Digitization
▶ Digitization
▶ Process of converting information to digital format.
▶ Object, text, sound or pic tures
▶ In numbers format.
▶ Processed by a computer.
▶ Allows data manipulation.
▶ Application of image enhancement tools.
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