Automated flight path planning for virtual endoscopy

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 629-637

  Paik, David S ^a   Beaulieu, Christopher F ^a   Jeffrey, R Brooke ^a   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^a   Napel, Sandy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medial axis; Path planning; Skeletonization; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ENDOSCOPY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION PLANNING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC COMPUTATIONS; BRANCHING STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; MEDIAL AXIS; MEDIAL AXIS TRANSFORMS; SKELETONIZATION; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS;

FLIGHT PATHS;

ALGORITHM; AORTA; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRONCHUS; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0031834573     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598244     Document Type: Article

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