Fast and robust method to compute colon centerline in CT colonography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5031, Issue , 2003, Pages 381-387

  Frimmel, Hans ^a   Näppi, Janne ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

C T colonography; Centerline; Collapsed regions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

COLON CENTERLINE; COLONIC LUMEN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042327788     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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