- Basic terminology – digital medical imagery 2D and 3D, modalities, resolution, isotropy, dynamic images, temporal resolution, interpolation - Multiscale image analysis – analysis and synthesis processes, pyramidal image representation, wavelets and Discrete Wavelet Transform - Image processing for presentation and analysis – digital x-ray images, properties of raw image data, dynamic range and MTF corrections, image structure enhancement, normalisation, sources and removal of noise, tone scaling - Multimodal diagnostic image fusion – visualisation of different modalities in a single image, structure fusion methods, monochromatic multi-scale fusion, colour spaces and colour fusion - Optimisation – advanced local and global optimisation methods, objective functions and distance measurement, hypothesis testing - Registration – image normalisatin, (perspecte) image transformarions, deformations, deformable registration, deformation fields, objective measures (MI, absolute differences, sum of squares) - Segmentation – iluminatin segmentation, snakes, level sets, mean shift, graf cuts, Markov fields - Shape and appearance modeling – statistical shape and texture models, appearance models, active appearance models (AAM)