Introductory Biomedical Imaging

Lecture Notes

This page includes links to a complete set of lecture notes from Biomedical Imaging. The course was taught by Bethe Scalettar in Spring 2026 at Lewis & Clark College. The notes were taken live by James Abney and recopied after class to improve legibility. The notes are organized chronologically, by lecture number. Each lecture was a full 60 minutes. The notes provide an alternative path to learning material in the book. They also should provide instructors with insight into how Bethe selects and presents material from the book. The students were given a take-home midterm covering microscopy (lectures 1-23) and an in-class final covering medical imaging and digital image processing (lectures 24-39). The amount of time spent on each subject, and the content of the corresponding lectures, varies somewhat from year-to-year, depending in part on class composition. For example, the class typically spends a lot of time on microscopy, especially fluorescence microscopy, because many of the students are biology majors working with those techniques. Click on the lecture number to view the associated notes.