Slice-based virtual endoscopy navigation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 711-716

  Lin, Hai ^a,b   Clapworthy, Gordon J ^a   Dong, Feng ^a   Krokos, Meleagros ^a   Shi, Jiaoying ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION PLANNING; VISUALIZATION;

NAVIGATION PATH PLANNING; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGES; TIME-INTENSIVE PROCESS; VIRTUAL CAMERA; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY; VISIBLE HUMAN;

ENDOSCOPY;

EID: 10044294464     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2001.942134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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