BMED 4460 - Biological Imaging Analysis

Survey of image analysis applications in biology and biotechnology; introduction to biological microscopy and selected biomedical imaging systems; image reconstruction and pre-processing; grayscale and geometric corrections; image segmentation; blob analysis, cell/colony counting, and cell morphometry; vessel and neuron tracing algorithms with applications to neurobiology and medicine; feature extraction, pattern analysis, cluster analysis and classification; image registration algorithms with applications to mosaicing, spatial referencing, motion estimation, and change detection.

Prerequisite: BMED 2300

When Offered: SPRING TERM ANNUALLY

Graded: GRADED

Credit Hours: 3