Medical Imaging

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Medical imaging is a rapidly growing discipline within the healthcare sector involving clinicians, physicists, computer scientists and those in the IT sector. This is fuelled by the rapid development of 3D medical imaging systems over the last few decades. This has been matched by an exponential rise in computing power over the last few decades, which has allowed imaging scientists to develop new methods for the acquisition, reconstruction, processing and display of digital medical image data with unprecedented speed, resolution and contrast: a trend which can only continue.

The University of Surrey's MSc in Medical Imaging is aimed at those with a first degree in a numerate subject wishing to pursue a career and/or gain further knowledge in the area of medical imaging and image analysis. The information below is aimed at providing some general background information on this rapidly developing area with details about the Surrey MSc in Medical Imaging.

What is Medical Imaging ?

The term Medical Imaging, to some, may invoke ideas of images of brain slices acquired from modern 'brain scanners'. However, the breadth of this subject is far wider: exemplar applications include the creation of 3D graphical models for facial reconstruction from scan data, visualisation of complex vascular (blood vessel) structures to assist key-hole surgical procedures, techniques for creating patient-specific 3D modelling of human organ shapes and image-based methods for characterising defects in the cardiac (heart muscle) cycle, and a whole host of methods designed to detect various pathologies and disease states in humans. The images on this page represent some of the research work in medical imaging undertaken in the Medical Imaging Group at Surrey. All of these applications and others require a firm grasp of theory taken from the areas of image and signal processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and computer graphics.

MSc in Medical Imaging

The MSc in Medical Imaging at UniS provides training, introductory experience and core knowledge for those individuals wishing to pursue a career in medical imaging.

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