Big Data in Medical Image Processing

Name: Big Data in Medical Image Processing
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

Big Data in Medical Image ProcessingAuthor(s): R. Suganya, S. Rajaram, A. Sheik Abdullah\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9781138557246, 978-1138557246\nSynopsis\nThe field of medical imaging seen rapid development over the last two decades and has consequently revolutionized the way in which modern medicine is practiced. Diseases and their symptoms are constantly changing therefore continuous updating is necessary for the data to be relevant. Diseases fall into different categories, even a small difference in symptoms may result in categorising it in a different group altogether. Thus analysing data accurately is of critical importance. This book concentrates on diagnosing diseases like cancer or tumor from different modalities of images. \n\nThis book is divided into the following domains: Importance of big data in medical imaging, pre-processing, image registration, feature extraction, classification and retrieval.