MCD BIO M130Fundamentals of Digital Imaging and Image Processing
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Computational and Systems Biology M130.) Digital imaging has become integral tool to our everyday lives and to nearly every field of life sciences. Quantitative approach to learning about basic properties of digital signals and surveying fundamental methods for processing and analyzing images.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, and Life Sciences 30A, 30B, and 40 or Statistics 13, or Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C, or Mathematics 31A, 31B, and 32A or 33A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.75 · from text- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, and Life Sciences 30A, 30B, and 40 or Statistics 13, or Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C, or Mathematics 31A, 31B, and 32A or 33A" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MCD BIO M130
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
14 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 27 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.