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Chapter 23: Image Formation & Display

Images are a description of how a parameter varies over a surface. For example, standard visual images result from light intensity variations across a two-dimensional plane. However, light is not the only parameter used in scientific imaging. For example, an image can be formed of the temperature of an integrated circuit, blood velocity in a patient's artery, x-ray emission from a distant galaxy, ground motion during an earthquake, etc. These exotic images are usually converted into conventional pictures (i.e., light images), so that they can be evaluated by the human eye. This first chapter on image processing describes how digital images are formed and presented to human observers.