Covering all clinically significant areas of the colon surface in virtual colonoscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4683, Issue , 2002, Pages 198-206

  Kreeger, Kevin ^a   Dachille, Frank ^a   Wax, Mark R ^a   Kaufman, Arie E ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete Surface Coverage; Interactive Navigation; Virtual Endoscopy; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL COLONOSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036033619     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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