14.1 5.1 Introduction
Medical images are at the heart of the patient’s diagnosis, determination of therapy, and follow-up. They are used not only by the diagnostic and interventional radiologists, but also by medical oncologists, radiotherapists, surgeons, dermatologists, pathologists, neurosurgeons, family physicians, and other medical professionals. The trend in medical imaging is increasingly digital [1,2]. The motivation is to represent medical images in digital form supporting image transfer and archiving, and to manipulate visual diagnostic information in useful and novel ways, such as image enhancement and volume rendering. In the past three decades, we have witnessed an explosion of primary digital modalities: film digitizers, ultrasound, X-ray computed radiography (CR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT), to name just a few [3,4]. These modalities, currently...
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Leondes, C.T. (2003). Networked Computer Systems Technology for Hospital Integrated Multimodality Image Management. In: Leondes, C.T. (eds) Computational Methods in Biophysics, Biomaterials, Biotechnology and Medical Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48329-7_14
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