Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision

The definitive tutorial on desktop image processing with NI's IMAQ Vision

This book brings together everything you need to achieve superior results with PC-based image processing and analysis. Expert Thomas Klinger combines a highly accessible overview of the field's key concepts, tools, and techniques; the first expert introduction to NI's breakthrough IMAQ Vision software; and several start-to-finish application case studies. You also get an extensive library of code and image samples, as well as a complete trial version of IMAQ Vision for Windows®. Coverage includes:

• Defining what to measure and how to measure it
• Acquiring images: working with CCDs, cameras, frame grabber cards, and leading medical image sources, including ultrasound, CT, and MRI
• Distributing images: compression techniques, image format standards, and DICOM medical imaging
• Processing images: gray-scale operations, spatial image filtering, frequency filtering,
• and morphology functions
• Analyzing images: pixel value and quantitative analyses, shape and pattern matching, bar codes, and more

With 300+ figures and 50+ exercises-all listed up front for easy access-this is the definitive image processing tutorial for every professional.

Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision is the definitive tutorial on desktop imageprocessing with NI's breakthrough IMAQ Vision software. It delivers everything professionals willneed to get results: a highly accessible overview of the field's key concepts, tools, andtechniques; a start-to-finish IMAQ VISION tutorial; several complete application case studies; anextensive CD-ROM library of code and image samples, and a complete trial version of NI VisionBuilder for Automated Inspection for Windows.

THOMAS KLINGER is currently Head of the School for Medical Information Technology, Carinthia Tech Institute, University of Applied Sciences, Carinthia, Austria. Before joining the university, he served as Development Manager Electronics and Senior Electronics Developer for Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care Devices.