Automatic colon segmentation with dual scan CT colonography

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-54

  Li, Hong ^a   Santago, Peter ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D segmentation; Computed tomographic colonography; Marching cubes; Polyp detection; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCREENING; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC COLON SEGMENTATION; EXTRACOLONIC COMPONENTS (EC); POLYP DETECTION SYSTEMS; SURFACE-BASED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; BODY POSTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INSUFFLATION; PRONE POSITION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 21044441954     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-004-1032-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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