Automated Centerline for Computed Tomography Colonography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1291-1301

  Iordanescu, Gheorghe ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Centerline detection; Colon; Colon cancer; Computed tomography; Computed tomography (CT); Image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0242268001     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)00464-1     Document Type: Article

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