Biomedical Images and Computers

Theme 1: Microscopic Image Analysis.- The application of computerized high resolution scanning techniques to the identification of human cells and tissues.- Automated analysis of Papanicolaou stained cervical specimens using a television-based analysis system (Leytas).- Recognition and quantification of complex histological tissues: applications to nervous tissues.- Bone marrow cell image analysis by color cytophotometry.- Feature extraction by mathematical morphology in the field of quantitative cytology.- Automation in cytogenetics at C.E.A. Paris.- Image processing in acoustic microscopy.- Digital image processing of electron micrographs.- Theme 2: Radiological Image Analysis.- Computer-assisted measurement of coronary arteries from cineangiograms: present technologies and clinical applications.- Image analysis in x-ray radiography.- Intravenous angiography using computerized fluoroscopy apparatus.- Intravenous cerebral angiography and image processing.- Digital analysis of x-ray radiographs.- Ultrasound signal processing for imaging and diagnosis.- Image restoration in cardiac radiology.- Ultrasonic multitransducer input signal analysis.- Theme 3: Tomography.- High speed cardiac x-ray computerized tomography.- Approaches to region of interest tomography.- Coded aperture tomography.- Positron emission tomography.- A new time-of-flight method for positron computed tomography (P.C.T.).- Sampled aperture techniques for high resolution ultrasound tomography.- Segmentation of tomographic images.- Theme 4: Image Processing Technology.- Technology and biomedical applications of automated light microscopy.- Advances in the processing of large biomedical data bases using specialized computers, improved device technology, and computer-aided design.- Mathematics of digitization of binary images.- Cellular computers and biomedical image processing.- Biomedical parallel image processing on Propal 2..- Appendix: List of Participants.