PBMED M209Signal and Image Processing for Biomedicine
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Bioengineering M209.) Mathematics and statistical fundamentals prevalent in biomedical physics studies. Notion and basic descriptions of linear shift-invariance and point spread functions in continuous and discrete time. Sampling theory and Fourier analysis. Signal representation of vector spaces, projection theorem, and least-squares approximations. Discussion of signal subspace methods, correlation and independence, principal component analysis, and independent component analysis. Basic ideas in inverse problems and optimization. Application in medical and signal processing. Development of geometric and informatics intuitions behind mathematics and statistics. Light derivations and MATLAB programming.
S/U or 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
Preparation: basic calculus or linear algebra and undergraduate probability.
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