An automatic colon segmentation for 3d virtual colonoscopy

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E84-D, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 201-208

  Satot, Mie ^a   Lakarett, Sarang ^a   Wan, Ming ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3d virtual colonoscopy; Partial volume effect; Volumetric segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC COLON SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035119755     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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