Abstract
Medical Imaging based Computer Aided Diagnosis (MICAD) integrates image information from different medical imaging modalities into a new image, which is dynamically performed for serial analysis of the images for a patient. The most important direction is the addition of the functional information into anatomic images, because the functional information supplies the more physiological information to tell the difference between normal tissue and lesions. This method is helpful for making the correct decision for patients during clinical diagnosis and treatment. The procedure of MICAD includes the data acquisition, the noise reduction, as well as the basic imaging process and analysis, such as the image segmentation, the image registration, the image fusion, the pattern recognition and the image display. The essential methods and the prospect of MICAD were introduced in this paper as well as the brief introduction of MICAD in China.
