Real-time automatic extraction of lumen region and boundary from endoscopic images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 600-604

  Kumar, S ^a   Asari, K V ^b   Radhakrishnan, D ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Back projection; Boundary detection; Boundary thinning; Endoscopic images; Progressive thresholding; Quad structure; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GASTROENTEROLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION;

BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM; INTEGRATED NEIGHBOURHOOD SEARCH (INS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTESTINE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032857140     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02513354     Document Type: Article

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