Acknowledgments
Dr. Najarian thanks Dr. Joo Heon Shin for his invaluable and detailed feedback,
which contained a long list of corrections addressed in this edition of the book.
Above all, Dr. Najarian would like to thank Dr. Abed Al Raoof Bsoul, his former
PhD student, who not only provided him with invaluable feedback on all chapters of
the book, but also helped him with forming some of the additional examples included
in the second edition. Raoof’s diligence and deep insight into signal and image processing were instrumental in forming this edition, and Dr. Najarian cannot thank
him enough for his help. Dr. Najarian also thanks Paul Junor at the Department of
Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia, whose editorial corrections
helped improve the presentation of this textbook.
We thank Dr. Sharam Shirani from McMaster University for sharing some of his
image processing teaching ideas and slides with us and for providing us his feedback
on Chapters 3 and 4. We would also like to thank Alireza Darvish and Jerry James
Zacharias for providing us with their invaluable feedback on several chapters of this
book. The detailed feedback from these individuals helped us improve the signal and
image processing chapters of this book.
Moreover, we would like to thank all hospitals, clinics, industrial units, and individuals who shared with us their biomedical and nonbiomedical images and signals.
In each chapter, the sources of all contributed images and signals are mentioned, and
the contribution of the people or agencies that provided the data is acknowledged.
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Dr. Najarian thanks Dr. Joo Heon Shin for his invaluable and detailed feedback,
which contained a long list of corrections addressed in this edition of the book.
Above all, Dr. Najarian would like to thank Dr. Abed Al Raoof Bsoul, his former
PhD student, who not only provided him with invaluable feedback on all chapters of
the book, but also helped him with forming some of the additional examples included
in the second edition. Raoof’s diligence and deep insight into signal and image processing were instrumental in forming this edition, and Dr. Najarian cannot thank
him enough for his help. Dr. Najarian also thanks Paul Junor at the Department of
Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia, whose editorial corrections
helped improve the presentation of this textbook.
We thank Dr. Sharam Shirani from McMaster University for sharing some of his
image processing teaching ideas and slides with us and for providing us his feedback
on Chapters 3 and 4. We would also like to thank Alireza Darvish and Jerry James
Zacharias for providing us with their invaluable feedback on several chapters of this
book. The detailed feedback from these individuals helped us improve the signal and
image processing chapters of this book.
Moreover, we would like to thank all hospitals, clinics, industrial units, and individuals who shared with us their biomedical and nonbiomedical images and signals.
In each chapter, the sources of all contributed images and signals are mentioned, and
the contribution of the people or agencies that provided the data is acknowledged.
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