Automatic bilateral symmetry (midsagittal) plane extraction from pathological 3D neuroradiological images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3338, Issue , 1998, Pages 1528-1539

  Liu, Yanxi ^a   Collins, Robert T ^a   Rothfus, William E ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral symmetry; Cross correlation; Midsagittal plane

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BILATERAL SYMMETRY; BRAIN SCANS; CLINICAL IMAGES; CROSS-CORRELATION; HUMAN BRAINS; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; MIDSAGITTAL PLANE; MULTI-MODAL DATUM; SYMMETRY PLANES; VOXEL SIZES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 0004866298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.310886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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