Segmenting 3D branching tubular structures using cores

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 2879, Issue PART 2, 2003, Pages 570-577

  Fridman, Yonatan ^a   Pizer, Stephen M ^a   Aylward, Stephen ^a   Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); EXTRACTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

BRANCHING ANGLES; CORES; HEIGHT RIDGES; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; HUMAN BODIES; IMAGE INTENSITIES; MEDIALNESS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TUBULAR OBJECTS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 0345255182     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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