Simultaneous segmentation and tree reconstruction of the airways for virtual bronchoscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 103-113

  Schlathölter, Thorsten ^a   Lorenz, Cristian ^a   Carlsen, Ingwer C ^a   Renisch, Steffen ^a   Deschamps, Thomas ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Endoscopy; Fast marching; Front propagation; Multi slice CT; Segmentation; Skeletonization; Tree reconstruction; Virtual Bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036035218     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467061     Document Type: Article

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