An automatic technique for finding and localizing externally attached markers in CT and MR volume images of the head

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 627-637

  Wang, Matthew Y ^a   Maurer Jr , Calvin R ^a   Fitzpatrick, J Michael ^a,b   Maciunas, Robert J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROIDS; FIDUCIAL LOCALIZATION; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOMARKERS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030175675     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.495282     Document Type: Article

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