Image analysis in radiology and nuclear medicine

Author

Faustino, R. ; Rio, J. ; Ferreira, Carla ; Marques, J.P. ; Abrunhosa, A.J. ; Ferreira, Nuno ; Castelo-Branco, Miguel ; Nunes, C. ; Cunha, G. ; Moura, Catarina ; Januario, C.

Author_Institution

ICNAS-Inst. for Nucl. Sci. Appl. to Health & IBILI, Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Over the years medical imaging has been developed based on the interaction between two different requirements. The first is the demand from clinicians to increase the accuracy in their medical diagnostic. The second is the relationship between basic, translational, clinical researchers and biomedical engineers committed to research and development of new diagnostic techniques. In this paper we report the application of two analysis techniques to the quantification of [¹⁸F]FDG PET imaging and Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of brain MRI images. Results obtained indicate that this techniques are an important tool to a more detailed analysis of different brain diseases or/and indirect complications of other pathologies.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; brain; diagnostic radiography; diseases; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; radiology; MRI; [¹⁸F]FDG PET imaging; biomedical engineers; brain; diseases; image analysis; nuclear medicine; pathologies; radiology; voxel-based morphometry; Biomedical imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Workstations; Medical imaging analysis; Positron Emission Tomography; Ressonance Magnetic Imaging; quantification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2013 IEEE 3rd Portuguese Meeting in

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4859-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENBENG.2013.6518385

Filename

6518385