Some signal processing problems in diagnostic radiology

Diganostic radiology is a branch of clinical medicine in which various forms of radiation are employed as an aid in the diagnosis of potential pathologies in a relatively noninvasive fashion. Both radioactive and x-ray sources of radiation are commonly employed as are a wide variety of detector and equipment configurations. Our objective in this presentation is to survey some signal processing problems that arise in this context, particularly problems in which random point processes and statistical inference seem to be of some importance.