Evaluation of 3D operators for the detection of anatomical point landmarks in MR and CT images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 118-136

  Hartkens, Thomas ^a   Rohr, Karl ^a,b   Stiehl, H Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b International University in Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANATOMICAL POINT LANDMARKS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0042529206     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2002.0964     Document Type: Article

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