- Introduction to medical imaging – digital diagnostic medical imagery 2D/3D/4D, imaging modalities, resolution, isotropy, dynamic images, temporal resolution, interpolation - Medical image analysis concepts – analysis aims, diagnostic processing, quantitative analysis of signals beyond human perception, computer aided diagnosis - Multiscale image analysis – analysis and synthesis processes, pyramidal image representation, wavelets and Discrete Wavelet Transform - Image processing for presentation – multi-scale structure enhancement, dynamic range and MTF corrections, noise removal, tone scaling - Optimisation – numerical optimisation methods in medical image analysis, objective functions and distance measurement, hypothesis testing, global and local methods - Registration – establishment of geometric correspondence, image normalisation, (perspecte) image transformarions, deformations, deformable registration, deformation fields, objective measures - 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)