Advanced Image Processing and AI

Full course description

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Most of us humans are much more efficient in conveying ideas and messages through pictures than through words. For a computer, this is not such an easy task. Tasks like face recognition have been worked on for more than 50 years, but became only recently available on mobile devices. A computer will require a multitude of steps before it can crap the essence of a picture. The high-resolution imaging modalities used in the field of Molecular Imaging and Engineering inevitably require automated analysis methods. In recent years these have become increasingly sophisticated, requiring expert knowledge to implement successfully.

This course will build on the fundaments laid out in the Imaging Informatics course and bring imaging processing to a next level. Although the professional context of this course is geared towards the applications offered during the programme, the methods presented are used for a wide range of modern-day image recognition, classification tasks, among others. Their fundamental aspects serve a much broader perspective, given the wide social impact that automated image recognition has on the society now and in the decades to come.