An image segmentation approach to extract colon lumen through colonic material tagging and hidden Markov random field model for virtual colonoscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4683, Issue , 2002, Pages 406-411

  Li, Lihong ^a   Chen, Dongqing ^a   Lakare, Sarang ^a   Kreeger, Kevin ^a   Bitter, Ingmar ^a   Kaufman, Arie E ^a   Wax, Mark R ^a   Djuric, Petar M ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic colon cleansing; Markov random field; Massive polyp screening; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036033876     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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