Segmentation of the Visible Human for high-quality volume-based visualization

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 263-270

  Schiemann, Thomas ^a   Tiede, Ulf ^a   Höhne, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi parametric classification; Segmentation; Visible human; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031215947     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(97)85001-3     Document Type: Article

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