Powerful Imaging Tools Required For Medical Image Analysis
Image processing experts MVTec have for a long time ticked all the boxes with their powerful HALCON 10 software package. As well as being used widely within machine vision system solutions HALCON’s tools are also considered invaluable within medical image analysis.
Julie Busby from Multipix Imaging, the UK distributor for HALCON, explains that in medical engineering different imaging methods can often be used. The most frequently used include colour processing, cell identification and 3D analysis.
For medical imaging applications, colour images are very important. In this area it is necessary to exactly classify colours and relating grey values. Therefore, highly powerful colour classifiers are needed which also can handle complex multi-channel images. In this instance HALCON can provide multi-layer perception, support vector machine or Gaussian mixture model. Primarily, these colour classifiers are used in cytology, cell biology diagnostics and pathology for tissue and cancer identification.
Another important area is identification of cells. A reliable classification is the first step to identify complex structures like cells and dendrites. After this, additional structural methods such as edge detection and line detection are needed to determine the relationships between these structures. For this purpose, HALCON provides fast and reliable methods.
A relatively new area is that of 3D imaging. In medical technology 3D imaging methods are getting more and more important and widely used. For example a drilled tooth can be scanned three-dimensionally by a laser line, and thus a 3D model of the inlay can be reconstructed.
In the pharmaceutical industry, image processing primarily supports quality control during drug production. Areas such as crystal growth control, liquid level control, or print control (OCV) of inserts and outer packing are common place. Furthermore, a pharmaceutical manufacturer can identify the colour of pills or if a blister package is broken or complete. With HALCON, these pharmaceutical industry applications are tried and tested and prove to be robust and very reliable.
Image Caption: Nerve cells and their network. The imaging software is able to clearly determine the relationships between these structures
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