Volume rendering of segmented image objects

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 998-1002

  Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a   Aylward, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; MR; Segmentation; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SURGERY;

VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036668841     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.803088     Document Type: Article

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