Guest editorial - Medial and medical: A good match for image analysis

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 79-84

  Pizer, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOTHERAPY; STUDENTS; TUMORS;

MEDIAL GEOMETRY; MEDIAL SHAPE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0242569261     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026198015379     Document Type: Editorial

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