Image processing tools package in medical imaging in MATLAB

Abstract

This paper is about a survey of image processing algorithms that have been developed for detection of masses and segmentation techniques. 35 students from university campus participated in the Development of Biomedical Image Processing Software Package for New Learners Survey to investigate the use of software package in processing and editing image. Composed of 19 questions, the survey built a comprehensive picture of the software package, programming language, workflow of the tool and captured the attitudes of the respondents. The result of this study shows that MATLAB is among the famous software package; more than 60% of the respondents prefer to use MATLAB for their image processing work. The Microsoft Photo Editor is the second popular software for images editing process. More than 30% of respondents are very likely to use a ready-to-use package for processing image rather than given source code. The result is expected to be beneficial and able to assist users on effective image processing and analysis in a newly develop software package. A preliminary image processing tool prototype was developed as shown in this paper.