Image Processing for Medical Image Analysis: A Review

Abstract

Image processing techniques are used widely in medical areas for improving the image in earlier detection and treatment stages, it is very important to discover the abnormality issues in given images, specially in various cancer, tumours such as lung cancer, breast cancer, etc. Image quality and accuracy is the main factors of this work, image quality improvement and assessment are depending on the enhancement stage where pre-processing techniques is used. The principal objectives of this course are to provide basic introduction and techniques for medical image processing and to promote for further study and research in medical image processing.