Virtual colonoscopy

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 37-41

  Kaufman, Arie E ^a   Lakare, Sarang ^b   Kreeger, Kevin ^c   Bitter, Ingmar ^d  

^a Stony Brook   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c R2 Technology   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COLONOGRAPHY (CTC); ELECTRON CLEANSING; ELECTRONIC BIOPSY; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY (VC);

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 13444249782     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1042091.1042117     Document Type: Review

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