Application of skeletonization algorithms for myocardial spect quantification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1176, Issue , 1996, Pages 227-236

  Scellier, Didier ^a   Boire, Jean Yves ^a   Thouly, Cyril ^b   Maublant, Jean ^b  

^a ERIM   (France)

^b CENTRE JEAN PERRIN   (France)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Scintigraphy; Segmentation; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

DISCRETE GEOMETRY; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL SPECT; NEW APPROACHES; SCINTIGRAPHY; SKELETON; SKELETONIZATION; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 21444446139     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62005-2_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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