A Method for Detecting Undisplayed Regions in Virtual Colonoscopy and its Application to Quantitative Evaluation of Fly-Through Methods

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1380-1391

  Hayashi, Yuichiro ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Hasegawa, Jun Ichi ^b   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Toriwaki, Jun Ichiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fly through; Undisplayed region; Virtual colonoscopy; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345991246     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)00545-2     Document Type: Article

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