PhD Course on Digital Imaging Systems

Welcome to the course on Digital Imaging Systems!

Course period: to be determined
Notify interest for participation to ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se

ECTS credits: 8 hp

How is a digital image captured? What are the differences between various modalities? Which acquisition method should be used for my application? These questions and many more will be answered in this course.

The course on Digital Imaging Systems is highly multi-disciplinary and will be given by invited expert lecturers from many specialties. It should be of interest for PhD students from many different subjects. In fact, the last time it was offered we attracted students from more than 10 different departments.

Course goal

Digital images have become more and more available. The aim of this course is to give a unified perspective on the large variety of imaging technologies that have developed during the last decades. The technologies will be discussed based on what they are imaging, as well as how and with what quality they are operating. The participants will achieve a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations of different imaging systems and based on this be able to evaluate the suitability of a particular technology for a particular task.

Target groups

The course is intended for graduate students from different subjects (material physics, geosciences, life sciences, medicine, etc.), where imaging and images are being or could be used as tools. Also graduate students interested in methods development in the area, e.g., in signal processing, scientific computing, or image processing, are welcome. Knowledge in basic mathematics and physics is a prerequisite and preferably also some experience of digital imaging.

Contents

The content and format of the course is summarised here and illustrated by the schedule below:

• Introductory overview of possible imaging technologies and principles and the consequent image properties.
• Guest lectures by experts about a selected representative number of imaging systems. The topics will be chosen among, for example, CCD/CMOS sensors, laser-scanners, laser-radar, fluorescent and confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, IR sensors and heat cameras, multispectral scanners and imaging spectroscopy, active and passive microwave sensors, SAR, tomography of various kinds, MR, CT, PET, SPECT, ultrasound, and atomic force microscopy.
• Concluding remarks at the end of the seminar series.
• Written exam focusing on comparisons between imaging principles discussed in the course.

Examination

To obtain 8 hp the following should be accomplished

• Attendance of the seminars actively, i.e., ask questions and take part in the discussions
• Study the handouts from the lectures
• Passing grade on the written exam

Course organizers

If you questions or suggestions on the course, please, contact the course organisers:

• Ingela Nyström, Professor
  ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se
  070-167 9045
• Ewert Bengtsson, Professor Emeritus
  ewert.bengtsson@cb.uu.se

Course structure

Seminar series

There will be 16 two-hour seminars during a two-months period.
The seminars will be held in at the Department of Infomation Technology in, Campus Polacksbacken.

Schedule

Date	Content	Presenter
Early September	Course presentation contents, distribution of material	Ingela Nyström
September	Seminar series
October	Seminar series	Invited speakers
End of October	Course final evaluation, etc.	Ingela Nyström
Early November	Written exam	All participants

List of potential participants

Name	Affiliation	.
Xxx Xxx	Centre for Image Analysis	PhD student
	Dept. of Information Technology	PhD student
	Dept. of Engineering Sciences	PhD student
	Dept. of Physics and Astronomy	PhD student
	Dept. of Surgical Sciences; Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	PhD student
	Dept. of Surgical Sciences; Radiology	PhD student
	and other departments	PhD student