A Survey of Medical Image Processing and its Applications

At present time, medical field is rapidly broadening as a result of inventive image processing technologies. Medical images are exclusively important because they provide a pathway for disease diagnosis and therapeutic analysis in the healthcare profession. Medical image acquisition, image enhancement, segmentation, feature extraction, and classification are the five major processing steps in a general medical image processing system. Based on image processing methodologies, this article presents a comprehensive study on medical image analysis and its application on various forms of medical images. We also discuss the challenges that scholars face during successful execution and provide an overview of the ups and downs of existing algorithms. This case study highlights the key terminologies to be noted or the future challenges that are to be considered in the image processing techniques.