Syllabus

1. Volumetric image acquisition, mathematical definition, and representation in memory.
2. Radiometric transformations and use of color.
3. Geometric affine and projective transformations.
4. Interpolation, reformatting, and planar cuts.
5. Ray casting, planar reformatting, and maximum/average intensity projection.
6. (Differential) Image Foresting Transform (IFT) and interactive segmentation of 3D images.
7. Image segmentation based on object models and interactive correction.
8. Euclidean distance transform (EDT), fast morphological operations by EDT, and reformatting by isosurface cuts.
9. Illumination models with object color and transparency.
10. Object visualization.
11. Image registration and color composition.