Morphological image processing operators: Reduction of partial volume effects to improve 3D visualization based on CT data;Morphologische bildverarbeitungsoperatoren: Reduktion von partialvolumenartefakten fur eine verbesserte dreidimensionale visualisierung von CT-untersuchungen

Radiologe

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 860-866

  Beier, J ^a   Bittner, R C ^a   Hosten, N ^a   Troger J ^a   Felix, R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D CT; Dilation; Erosion; Image processing; Morphological operators; Partial volume effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DENSITOMETRY; METHODOLOGY;

DENSITOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031597383     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001170050435     Document Type: Article

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