Restriction: For Master of Engineering students only or with permission of department.

Introduces fundamental topics of medical image analysis, including image enhancement, filtering, feature extraction, segmentation, registration, classification. Topics will be discussed in the context of both traditioanl and deep learning approaches. The course also covers performance metrics and evaluation techniques used by experts in the image analysis communitAlong with digital image processing, this course will review medical imaging modalities, their mechanisms of action, and best practices for modality specific image file types and formats. Students introduced to these topics will learn industry-relevant software and practice digital image processing in MATLAB and Python based environments.