COMPUTER IMAGING IN BIOLOGY

(COURSE  SYLLABUS- Fall 2003)

Lectures:               Mondays          2:30-3:20 PM                       051 Mckinly

Laboratories:        Weds. & Fri      2:00-4:00 PM                      051&043 Mckinly

Instructor:             Dr. Roger Wagner                                        Phone:  831-2284

                          321 Wolf Hall, 005 Mckinly Lab.               E-mail:   rags@udel.edu                             

Course Web Page: http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/b667/computer.htm

Course Calendar

Date                Day                                                  Subject

Sept.  3          

Wed.       

Lect.

Course Intro. Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Image Processing Toolkit 4.0

Sept.  5

Fri.

Lect.

Image Acquisition & Hardcopy Output    (043 Mckinly)

Sept.  8          

Mon.    

 

Image Processing Systems, Image Aquistition,

Digital Images (bits & pixels), Image File Formats

Sept.  10

Wed.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #1 "Creating a Test Figure"

Sept.  12

Fri.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #2   "Selection"

Sept.  15

Mon..

Lect.

Intensity Transformation Functions-

Point Operations and Spatial Convolution

Sept. 17

Wed.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #3 "Layers"

Sept. 19

Fri..

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #4  "Cutting and Pasting"

Sept. 22

Mon.

Lect.

Segmentation,Thresholding and Binary Image Editing

Sept. 24

Wed.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #5 "Channels and Masks"

Sept. 26

Fri.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise #6 "Colorizing a Gray Scale Image"

Sept. 29

Mon.

Lect.

Fundamentals of Light and Electron Microscopy

Oct. 1

Wed.

Lab.

Adobe Photoshop Exercise#7 "Actions, Batch Operation and Animation"

Oct. 3

Fri.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #1 " Intensity Transformation Functions" 

Oct. 6

Mon.

Lab

Image Analysis: Global Properties

Oct. 8

Wed.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #2 "Processing in Frequency Space"         

Oct. 10

Fri.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #3: "Segmentation & Thresholding"

Oct. 13

Mon.

Lect.

Image Analysis: Feature Properties

Oct. 15

Wed.

Lab.

Processing Exercise # 4"Binary Image Editing"

Oct. 17

Fri..

Lab.

Processing Exercise #5 "Boolean Logic Operators"

Oct. 20

Mon.

Lect.

Confocal Microscopy: (Dr. Czymmek)

Oct. 22

Wed.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #6  "Stereology and Global Parameters"

Oct. 24

Fri.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #7 "Feature-Specific Measurements"

Oct. 27          

Mon.

Lect.

Image Analysis:Analysis of Electron Spectroscopic Data

Oct. 29.

Wed.

Lab.    

Processing Exercise #8 "Preparation of Anaglyph Stereopairs"

Oct. 31.         

Fri.

 

Processing Exercise #9 "Electron Spectroscopic Analysis"

Nov. 3.

Mon.

Lect.

Three Dimensional Modeling and Rendering

Nov. 5

Wed.

Lab.

Processing Exercise #9 Electron Spectroscopic Analysis

Nov. 7

Fri.

Lab.

3D Modeling and Rendering

Nov. 10

Mon.

Lab.

3D Modeling and Rendering

Nov. 12th-Dec. 10th - work on projects and presentations