Interactive 3-D virtual colonoscopy system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-150

  Lee, Tong Yee ^a   Lin, Ping Hsien ^a   Lin, Chao Hung ^a   Sun, Yung Nien ^a   Lin, Xi Zhang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLONOSCOPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 0032585842     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.767089     Document Type: Article

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