A novel approach to extract colon lumen from CT images for virtual colonoscopy

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1220-1226

  Chen, Dongqing ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a   Wax, Mark R ^a   Li, Lihong ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Kaufman, Arie E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel preparation; Electronic colon cleansing; Image segmentation; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; X RAYS;

AIR VOXELS; COLONOSCOPY; INTENSITY VECTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0034351109     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.897814     Document Type: Article

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