Biomedical Image Analysis Recipes in MATLAB: For Life Scientists and Engineers

As its title suggests, this innovative book has been written for life scientists needing to analyse their data sets, and programmers, wanting a better understanding of the types of experimental images life scientists investigate on a regular basis. Each chapter presents one self-contained biomedical experiment to be analysed. Part I of the book presents its two basic ingredients: essential concepts of image analysis and Matlab. In Part II, algorithms and techniques are shown as series of ‘recipes’ or solved examples that show how specific techniques are applied to a biomedical experiments like Western Blots, Histology, Scratch Wound Assays and Fluoresence. Each recipe begins with simple techniques that gradually advance in complexity. Part III presents some advanced techniques for the generation of publication quality figures. The book does not assume any computational or mathematical expertise.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 The Basic Ingredients
CHAPTER 2 Introduction to Images
CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Colour
CHAPTER 4 Western Blots
CHAPTER 5 Scratch Wound Assays
CHAPTER 6 Bright Field Microscopy
CHAPTER 7 Fluorescence Microscopy
CHAPTER 8 Creating Publication-Quality Figures from Matlab