**Meet the editor**

Dr. Felix Okechukwu Erondu is a practicing medical imaging consultant with clinical experience spanning over nineteen years. He is an Adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Medical Radiography and Radiological sciences in the University of Nigeria, Enugu campus and senior research fellow with over 40 scientific publications in renown international journals. Dr Erondu also

holds the post of the Medical director of Image Diagnostics Ltd, Nigeria, a chain of ultramodern diagnostic facilities engaged in medical imaging and clinical support services. He has served as a board member of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital and chairman of Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria. He holds a masters degree in Medical Imaging and a doctorate in Medical Physics.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Basic Concepts in Medical Imaging 1** 

and Marco Antonio Gutierrez

Chapter 3 **3D Ultrasound Image Segmentation:** 

**Part 2 Image Processing Techniques 87** 

**of Medical Images 89** 

Chapter 7 **Tools to Improve the Patient's Processes at Imaging Centers 135**  Liliana Neriz and Francisco J. Ramis

H. Trabelsi, M. Gantri and E. Sediki

Julien Olivier and Ludovic Paulhac

Chapter 4 **Radiation Protection in Medical Imaging 67** 

Chapter 5 **Current Trends in Archiving and Transmission** 

Chapter 1 **Identification of Structures in Medical Images 3**  Marina de Sá Rebelo, Sérgio Shiguemi Furuie, Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr, Eduardo Tavares Costa

Chapter 2 **Detection of Abnormalities in a Biological Tissue by** 

**Interactive Texture-Based Approaches 43** 

Luís S. Ribeiro, Carlos Costa and José Luís Oliveira

Chapter 6 **Large-Scale User Facility Imaging and Scattering Techniques to Facilitate Basic Medical Research 107** 

Trent L. Nichols, Philip R. Bingham and Mark L. Green

Stephen D. Miller, Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Shaun S. Gleason,

**Diffuse Optical Tomography: A Computational Study 27** 

Horaţiu Colosi, Dan Colosi, Vlad Mureşan and Marius Roman

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**

	- **Part 2 Image Processing Techniques 87**

Contents VII

Chapter 9 **A Mutual Information-Based Image Quality Metric for Medical Imaging Systems 195**  Du-Yih Tsai, Eri Matsuyama and Yongbum Lee

#### **Part 3 Applications in Clinical Settings 213**

	- **Part 4 Advances in Medical Imaging Techniques 309**
