Information Processing in Medical Imaging: Proceedings of the 8th conference, Brussels, 29 August – 2 September 1983

Digital Methods for Change Detection in Medical Images.- An Approach to Endocardial Boundary Detection from Sequential Real Time Two-dimensional Echocardiographic Images: Status of the Algorithm and its Validation.- Analysis of Dynamic Radionuclide Studies Using Factor Analysis — a hew approach.- Decontamination of Crosstalk in First-Pass Radionuclide Angiocardiography.- Coded Aperture Tomography Revisited.- Resolution Limits for Full- and Limited-Angle Tomography.- New Directions in Coded Aperture Imaging.- Preprocessing of SPECT Data as a Precursor for Attenuation Correction.- The Application of Variable Median Window Filtering to Computerised Tomography.- ART vs. Convolution Algorithms for ECT.- A Generalised Weighted Backprojection Algorithm for SPECT.- Application of Linear Classifiers to the Recognition of the Temporal Behavior of the Heart.- A Comparative Review of Methods of Obtaining Ampl./Phase and Related Images for Gated Cardiac Studies.- Rapid Automatic Functional Imaging of the Heart and the Application of Time Images.- The Normal Heart: Patterns for Various Functional Images Obtained from Radionuclide Gated Equilibrium Studies.- Fourier Filtering Cardiac Time Activity Curves: Sharp Cutoff Filters.- Data Processing in Nuclear Ventriculography: Assessing Cardiac Function from Noisy Data.- The Definition of a Single Measure of Regional Wall Motion Abnormality in Scintigraphic Ventriculography.- Image Analysis — Topological Methods.- Some Applications of Hierarchical Image Processing Algorithms.- Acousto-Optic Deconvolution System for Real-Time Echography.- A Bayesean Algorithm for Resolution Recovery in Clinical Nuclear Medicine.- Discriminant Analysis of Exercise Renograms.- A Stochastic Interpretation of Thallium Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy.- ANew Approach for Testing the Significance of Differences Between ROC Curves Measured from Correlated Data.- Imaging Spatial Distributions of Resistivity Using Applied Potential Tomography — APT.- An Uncollimated Compton Profile Method for Determination of Osteoporotic Changes in Vertebral Bone Density and Composition.- Automated Tissue Characterization with NMR Imaging.- Zonal Parametric Imaging.- Interactive 3D Display of Medical Images.- Can We Predict Visual Performance Using a Model of the Human Eye?.- Unified Analysis of Medical Imaging System SNR Characteristics.- List of addresses.- Proceedings of previous IPMI conferences.

`This book is very valuable for the medical imaging scientist and may serve several purposes: as a detailed and relatively complete introduction to a possibly unfamiliar area of medical imaging, and as a source of inspiration for one's own research. While the book is an excellent resource for the imaging scientist, the physician with a technical bent might also benefit from it. This reviewer eagerly awaits the proceedings of the ninth conference.'
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 26:11