Colour in medical imaging
2016-2017 - IMT4301 - 7.5sp

Forutsetter bestått

None

Anbefalt forkunnskap

IMT4072 or other colour science/colour imaging course

Forventet læringsutbytte

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Knowledge

• Define colour characterization methods for a range of medical capture and display systems
• Describe the problems that may be encountered in characterizing medical colour imaging systems, and potential solutions
• Describe methods of calibration for medical imaging devices

Skills

• Evaluate the calibration of a medical imaging system to appropriate international standards
• Generate and evaluate characterization transforms from raw capture RGB data
• Calibrate medical displays for primary reading and secondary viewing environments
• Generate and evaluate ICC profiles which encode characterization transforms for medical imaging systems

Competencies

• Evaluate and apply guidelines for clinical photography
• Generate images with embedded colour transforms
• Determine appropriate preference renderings for different medical imaging modalities

Emnets temaer

The aim of this course is to provide an opportunity for students to apply colour imaging science to a range of different imaging modalities in the medical field. With reference to current and emerging international standards and best practice, students will gain a competence in the techniques required to successfully calibrate different types of medical capture and display systems, and understand some of the particular problems of this field. They will also learn how to encode transforms that convert source images to an appropriate reference colour space and present the resulting images on medical-grade displays.

 

1. Calibration and characterization of medical image capture systems
2. Camera RAW characterization for medical capture
3. Calibration and characterization of digital microscopy images
4. Calibration and characterization of medical displays
5. Medical display use cases: grayscale, pseudo-colour and true-colour
6. The Gray Scale Display function and its applications
7. The MedicalRGB reference encoding and colour space
8. The Colour Standard Display Function for medical displays
9. Multispectral imaging in medical systems
10. Encoding and interpreting colour images using the DICOM format
11. International standards governing colour in medical imaging
12. Applications of preference-based rendering in medical imaging
13. Issues with imaging on mobile devices
14. Image processing for pseudo-colour images
15. Effect of colour device accuracy on the accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnosis
16. Requirements of clinical photography

Coursework projects will focus on a sub-set of these topics

Pedagogiske metoder

Forelesninger
Lab.øvelser
Nettbasert Læring
Prosjektarbeid
Samling(er)/seminar(er)

Pedagogiske metoder (fritekst)

Remote students are able to participate through on-line access to lectures and other resources, but will need access to specialist equipment to complete the assessed coursework. Students are able to access specialist equipment for the course by appointment.

Vurderingsformer

Vurdering av prosjekt(er)

Vurderingsformer

Students will undertake an individual coursework project on a selected topic on colour in medical imaging, and provide a written rationale, description of methods, analysis and discussion of results.  

Karakterskala

Bokstavkarakterer, A (best) - F (ikke bestått)

Sensorordning

One internal examiner

Utsatt eksamen (tidl. kontinuasjon)

Re-submission of coursework project

Improvement of grade
Students who wish to improve their grade in the assessment shall present themselves for reassessment.

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav

Students are required to complete a coursework project.

 

This course requires access to specialist equipment and hence students will need to be physically present for lab sessions, particularly those relevant to their selected coursework project. Students are able to access specialist equipment for the course by appointment.

In addition all students are required to attend project briefing sessions at the beginning of the course. The exact times of these sessions will be announced before the start of the semester.

Læremidler

Basic textbook:

Green, P. J.. (2010)Color ManagementNY: Wiley

 

Additional books:

Colour Engineering, P. J. Green and L. MacDonald, Wiley (2002)

Color Medical Image Analysis, M. E. Celebi and G. Schaefer, Springer (2013)

Erstatter

None

Supplerende opplysninger

This course is a mandatory course in the COSI programme.

In case there will be less than 5 students that will apply for the course, it will be at the discretion of Studieprogramansvarlig whether the course will be offered or not and if yes, in which form.