Computer Vision for Medical Data Analysis

The images are widely used in the medical diagnostics. Most people who visited any kind of physician encountered one of the devices that are used in the medical diagnostics on a daily basis. The most typical are X-ray and ultrasound scans. Some General Practitioners have a dermatoscope to take pictures of the skin. Similarly, thermography can be used to take kind of heatmap images of our body. If the diagnosis of a disease is more complex, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), or even positron emission tomography is used before surgery. A specific type of X-ray is mammography (MMG) that is used to investigate the breast diseases. A bit more invasive device are endoscopes that can be used to diagnose an illness while introduced into the body through the i.e. mouth. In some cases, when surgery is done, cells must be invested to cure the disease. This procedure is performed on a histopathological image, where the physician checks the image at high magnification.