2007 ILS Course

Image Analysis for Medical Research

This course introduces attendees to several open-source, freely available toolkits and applications for pre-clinical medical image analysis and visualization.

Driving research areas to be specifically addressed include:

• Small animal image analysis
• Tumor volume estimation and tracking
• CT/PET image registration
• Histology reconstruction

Technologies covered include:

• CT, MR, PET image processing
• Web-based image collection, distribution, and archiving.
• The Insight Toolkit for medical image segmentation and registration (ITK)
• The Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
• ITK's image registration tools, segmentation tools, and derived tools
• Kitware's VolView and ParaView applications