Symbolic description of 3-D structures applied to cerebral vessel tree obtained from MR angiography volume data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 687 LNCS, Issue , 1993, Pages 94-111

  Gerig, G ^a   Koller, Th ^a   Szekely G ^a   Brechbühler, Ch ^a   Kubler O ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3 D Binary thinning; 3 D Raster tovector transform; Cerebrospinal vasculature; Magnetic resonance angiography; Multidimensional image analysis; Symbofic representation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RASTERIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

3-D BINARY THINNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; SYMBOFIC REPRESENTATION; VASCULATURE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0002854447     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0013783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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