Advanced Signal Processing Handbook

This handbook develops a generic processing structure, based on the similarities between radar, sonar, and medical imaging systems, to present an introduction to these new principles and applications. Bridging a number of related fields, it guides readers into the next generation of active and passive real-time systems.

Stergios Stergiopoulos received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Athens in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics in 1977 and 1982, respectively, from York University, Toronto, Canada. Presently he is an Adjunct Professor at the Department o f Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Western Ontario and a Senior Defence Scientist at Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM ) of the Canadian DND. Prior to this assignment and from 1988 and 1991, he was with the SACLANT Centre in La Spezia, Italy, where he performed both theoretical and experimental research in sonar signal processing. At SACLANTCEN, he developed jointly with Dr. Sullivan from NUWC an acoustic synthetic aperture technique that has been patented by the U.S. Navy and the Hellenic Navy. From 1984 to 1988 he developed an underwater fixed array surveillance system for the Hellenic Navy in Greece and there he was appointed senior advisor to the Greek Minister of Defence. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a research associate at York University and in collaboration with the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), Aberdeen, MD, on projects related to the stability of liquid-filled spin stabilized projectiles. In 1984 he was awarded a U.S. NRC Research Fellowship for BRL. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and has prepared two special issues on Acoustic Synthetic Aperture and Sonar System Technology. His present interests are associated with the implementation of non-conventional processing schemes in multi-dimensional arrays of sensors for sonar and medical tomography (CT, MRI, ultrasound) systems. His research activities are supported by Canadian-DND Grants, by Research and Strategic Grants (NSERC-CANADA) ($300K), and by a NATO Collaborative Research Grant. Recently he has been awarded with European Commission-ESPRIT/IST Grants as technical manager of two projects entitled "New Roentgen" and "MITTUG." Dr. Stergiopoulos is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a senior member of the IEEE. He has been a consultant to a number of companies, including Atlas Elektronik in Germany, Hellenic Arms Industry, and Hellenic Aerospace Industry.

1.Signal Processing Concept Similarities Among Sonar, Radar, and Medical Imaging Systems 2. Adaptive Systems 3. Gaussian Mixtures and Their Applications to Signal Processing 4. Matched Field Processing, A Blind System Identification Technique 5. Model-Based Ocean Acoustic Signal Processing 6. Advanced Beamformers 7. Advanced Applications of Volume Visualization Methods in Medicine 8. Target Tracking 9. Target Motion Analysis (TMA). Sonar Systems 10. Theory and Application of Advanced Signal Processing for Active and Passive Sonar Systems 11. Phased Array Radars 12. Medical Ultrasonic Imaging Systems 13. Basic Theory and Application of Ultrasound Imaging 14. Industrial Computed Tomographic Imaging 15. Organ Motion Effects in Medical CT Imaging Applications 16. Magnetic Resonance Tomography-Imaging with a Nonlinear System 17. Functional Imaging of Tissues by Kinetic Modeling of Contrast Agents in MRI 18. Medical Image Registration and Fusion Techniques: A Review 19. The Role of Imaging in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning