CEASAR: A smooth, accurate and robust centerline extraction algorithm

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 45-52

  Bitter, I ^a   Sato, M ^a   Bender, M ^a   McDonnell, K T ^a   Kaufman, A ^a   Wan, M ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CENTERLINE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034449075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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