Introduction -Origin -Steps in Digital Image Processing -Components -Elements of Visual Perception- Image Sensing and Acquisition -Image Sampling and Quantization - Relationships between pixels - color models MATLAB: Image sampling and quantization

Spatial Domain: Gray level transformations - Histogram processing - Basics of Spatial Filtering-Smoothing and Sharpening Spatial Filtering -Frequency Domain: Introduction to Fourier Transform - Smoothing and Sharpening frequency domain filters - Ideal, Butterworth and Gaussian filters MATLAB: Analysis of spatial and intensity resolution of images

Noise models - Mean Filters - Order Statistics - Adaptive filters - Band reject Filters -Band pass Filters - Notch Filters -Optimum Notch Filtering - Inverse Filtering - Wiener filtering Segmentation: Detection of Discontinuities-Edge Linking and Boundary detection - Region based segmentation-Morphological processing -erosion and dilation. MATLAB: Edge detection, line detection and point detection

Medical images obtained with ionizing radiation: Medical imaging modalities- Images from x-rays-Images from gamma rays-Medical images obtained with non-ionizing radiation: Ultrasound imaging- Magnetic resonance imaging-Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) MATLAB: Medical Image Enhancement

Computer-aided diagnosis in mammography - Tumor imaging and treatment - Angiography - Bone strength and osteoporosis - Tortuosity- Frontiers of image processing in medicine- Trends - Functional magnetic resonance imaging - Molecular imaging. MATLAB: Medical Image filtering