MEDICAL IMAGING

By

Anuja Kulkarni

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LIST OF ACRONYMS CAT - Computed Axial Tomography CT - Computed Tomography DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine EEG - Electroencephalography EKG - Electrocardiography fMRI- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging JFIF- JPEG File Interchange Format JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group JPIP- JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol MEG - Magnetoencephalography MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging NMR- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance PET- Positron Emission Tomography PNG- Portable Network Graphics PSNR- Peak Signal to Noise Ratio RF- Radio Frequency SSIM- Structural Similarity

INTRODUCTION Medical imaging as the name suggests is the

technique and process used to create images of parts and functions of human body for clinical purposes.

It is a medical procedure seeking to reveal, diagnose or examine disease. [1]

There are two types of medical imaging, they are- Invisible light medical imaging- radiology /clinical

imaging

Visible light medical imaging- involves digital video or still pictures that can be seen without special equipment.

IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES

Radiology: [2]Two forms of radiographic images are in use in medical imaging; projection radiography and fluoroscopy.

Figure 1: Digital Radiography

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND FIDUCIARY MARKER

A magnetic resonance imaging instrument, uses powerful magnets to polarise and excite hydrogen nuclei in water molecules in human tissue, producing a detectable signal which is spatially encoded, resulting in images of the body. [3]

Fiduciary markers are used in a wide range of medical imaging applications. Images of the same subject produced with two different imaging systems may be correlated by placing a fiduciary marker in the area imaged by both systems. [4]

Figure 2: fMRI scan Figure 3: Fiducial Marker Example

TOMOGRAPHY

Tomography is the method of imaging a single plane, or slice, of an object resulting in a tomogram. [5]

Figure 4: Computed tomography of brain

DIGITAL PATHOLOGY Digital Pathology is an image-based information environment

enabled by computer technology that allows for the management of information generated from a digital slide. [6]

Digital pathology involves the practice of converting glass slides into digital slides that can be viewed, managed, and analyzed.

Digital Pathology Environment Scan View Manage Analyze Integrate Sharing

PHILIPS DIGITAL PATHOLOGY SCANNER

Figure 5: A prototype of a digital pathology scanner by Philips [8]

CREATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES

Recently, techniques have been developed to enable CT, MRI and ultrasound scanning software to produce 3D images for the physician. [9]

To produce 3D images, many scans are made, then combined by computers to produce a 3D model, which can then be manipulated by the physician.

COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES Image compression may be lossy or lossless. For

medical imaging, lossless compression is preferred for archival purposes. [10]

JPEG and JPEG2000 are the compression techniques used for medical imaging.

The JPEG 2000 family offers many extended functionalities, some of which grow out of the options of scalability offered by the various encodings, and which extend to the interactivity provided by JPIP, Part 9 of the JPEG 2000 standard. [10]

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF JPEG 2000

Figure 6: Block diagram of JPEG Encoder/decoder [11]

WHY JPEG2000?

JPEG 2000 is the state-of-the-art image compression DICOM standard for storage and transmission of medical images. [12]

JPEG 2000 has many characteristics which are useful to medical imaging.

Images can be communicated losslessly, without any distortions introduced by a compression process that may lead to mis-diagnosis.

This often results in huge files, which can be difficult to store, handle, and communicate.  JPEG 2000 can be used to encode files completely losslessly, and provides good compression performance.

CRITERIA TO EVALUATE A COMPRESSED IMAGE

Compression ratio Bit rate PSNR – Peak signal to noise ratio SSIM – Structural Similarity

COMPARISON OF COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES

Figure 7: Comparison of compression techniques [13]

COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES

JPIP (JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol) is a compression streamlining protocol that works with JPEG 2000 to produce an image using the least bandwidth required. [14]

JPIP has the capacity to download only the requested part of a picture, saving bandwidth, computer processing on both ends, and time.

NON-DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING (NEUROIMAGING) Neuroimaging has also been used in experimental

circumstances to allow people to control outside devices, acting as a brain computer interface. [15]

Neuroimaging falls into two broad categories:• Structural imaging• Functional imaging which is used to diagnose

metabolic diseases and lesions on a finer scale (such as Alzheimer's disease)

Figure 8: 3D MRI section of the head [16]

RESULTS

Figure 9: At bits per pixel 0.25 (a) Original image (b) JPEG (c) JPEG 2000

RESULTS

Figure 10: At bits per pixel 0.25 (a) Original image (b) JPEG (c) JPEG 2000

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