Computed cleansing for virtual colonoscopy using a three-material transition model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 2879, Issue PART 2, 2003, Pages 175-183

  Serlie, Iwo ^a   Truyen, Roel ^b   Florie, Jasper ^c   Post, Frits ^a   Van Vliet, Lucas ^a   Vos, Frans ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cleansing, virtual endoscopy; Colonography; Colonoscopy; Volume segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENDOSCOPY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CLEANSING; COLONOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY; VOLUME SEGMENTATION;

TUMORS; ENDOSCOPY;

EID: 11244251798     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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