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Color image processing with biomedical applications.

Rangayyan (electrical and computer engineering and surgery and radiology, U. of Calgary, Canada), Begoña Acha Piñero, and María Carmen Serrano Gotarredona (both signal processing and communications, U. of Seville, Spain) have done considerable research in processing medical images, and here describe techniques that have been specially designed to process color images, rather than expanded from monochrome techniques. They cover the nature and representation of color images; the acquisition, creation, and quality control of color images; removing noise and artifacts; and enhancing and segmenting color images. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Optical imaging and aberrations, part 2: Wave diffraction optics, 2d ed.

Optical scientist Mahajan works on space-based surveillance systems for an aerospace company. Here he begins by setting out the diffraction theory of image formation, establishing the fundamental relations and their statement as theorems that he uses in the succeeding chapters to obtain some practical results for imaging systems with circular, annular, and Gaussian pupils. Among his topics are optical transfer function, balanced aberrations and Zernike circle polynomials, a defocused system with annular pupils, line of sight of an aberrated system, and imaging through atmospheric turbulence. The first part discusses imaging based on ray geometrical optics. The first edition was published in 2001, and corrections were made in a 2004 printing and 2009 electronic version; 88 pages of new material have been added here. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)