A probabilistic method for virtual colonoscopy cleansing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5031, Issue , 2003, Pages 405-412

  Serlie, Iwo ^a   Truyen, Roel ^b   De Vries, Geert ^a   Post, Frits ^a   Vos, Frans ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic cleansing; CT colonography; Probabilistic segmentation; Virtual colonoscopy (VC)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY; TISSUE; VECTORS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; POLYPS; PROBABILISTIC SEGEMENTATION; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY CLEANSING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041326305     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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