High quality isosurface generation from volumetric data and its application to visualization of medical CT data

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 734-737

  Takahashi, Tomokazu ^a   Mekada, Yoshito ^a   Murase, Hiroshi ^a   Yonekura, Tatsuhiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SURFACES; CUBIC LATTICE; MARCHING CUBES (MC); TESSELLATION;

ALGEBRA; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DATA REDUCTION; INTERPOLATION; VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 10044266518     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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