Computer-assisted analysis and 3D visualization of blood vessels based on cone-beam CT images

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

Volumn 1024, Issue , 1995, Pages 355-362

  Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Kumazaki, Tatsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

3-D IMAGE PROCESSING; 3-D RECONSTRUCTION IMAGES; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS; CONE BEAM CT IMAGES; CONE-BEAM PROJECTION; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21844508306     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-60697-1_122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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