A method for detecting colonic polyps using curve fitting from 3D abdominal CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5746, Issue I, 2005, Pages 403-414

  Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Kimura, Takahiro ^a   Hayashi, Yuichiro ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Toriwaki, Jun Ichiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon; Computer aided detection; Curvature; Fitting; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES; TUMORS;

COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION (CAD) SYSTEM; CURVATURE; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844463898     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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