Image Processing Group

Address: Department of Applied Informatics,
Jozsef Attila University,
H-6720 Szeged, Arpad ter 2.
Phone: +36-62-311-184
Fax: +36-62-312-292

Members:

Attila Kuba, PhD
Eörs Máté, PhD
Mariann D. Nagy
Endre Katona
Antal Nagy
László Nyúl
Kálmán Palágyi

PhD students:

Levente Farkas, impedance tomography
Csongor Halmai, 3D image processing
Gábor Bánfi, PACS
László Dani, image compression

The Image Processing Group was established in 1975 as a research group of the Jozsef Attila University, Szeged. Its main activity connected with the medical image processing, specially, with the applications in nuclear medicine. The group developed the nuclear medicine data processing system (SEGAMS, Szeged Gamma Camera System) in a cooperation with the Gamma Works, Budapest, and the Medical University of Szeged. This software and its newer versions (SuperSEGAMS and MicroSEGAMS) have being installed in most of the nuclear medicine laboratories of the East-European countries. Another development of the group was the first Hungarian Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomograph (SPECT), the MB 9300 system.

Software develeopments and theoretical investigations are running also in

image reconstruction from projections,

3D image presentation,

thinning algorithms,

medical image standards (Interfile, ACR-NEMA, DICOM),

Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS),

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The most relevant publications:

Kuba A.: Reconstruction of two-directionally connected binary patterns from their two orthogonal projections, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 27, 249-265 (1984).
A. Kuba, L. Csernay:Picture processing possibilities in the experimental ECAT-software of SEGAMS, NucCompact 13, 131-136 (1982).
A. Kuba, Feistel H., Mahlstedt J., Wolf F.: New method to present ECT images, NucCompact 15, 174-178 (1984).
E. M t, A. Kuba, L. Csernay: Application of reciprocal matrices in SPECT, Europ. Nucl. Med. Congr. 1987, Budapest, Abstr.: Nuklearmedizin, 37-40 (1988).
A. Kuba, E. Mate, A. Makay, L. Csernay:Data processing system for nuclear medicine images, Int. J. Image Proc. Syst. 4, 51-56 (1992).
M.F. Lythgoe, H. Davies, A. Kuba, M. Toth-Abonyi, I. Gordon: Krypton-81m and dynamic lung imaging, Meeting of British Soc. Nucl. Med., London, 1992, Abstr.: Comm. Nucl. Med. 12, 155 (1992).
E. Mate, J. Mester, L. Csernay, A. Kuba, S. Madani, A. Makay: Three-dimensional presentation of the Fourier amplitude and phase: A fast display method for gated cardiac blood-pool SPECT, J. Nucl. Med. 33, 458-462 (1992).
A. Kuba, L. Csernay, L. Kardos, Z. Alexin, A. Nagy, L. Nyul, L. Almasi: Educational PACS at the Medical University of Szeged, CAR'96, Elsevier, p. 1027 (1996).