Rectangular meshes construction of the human urethra using 3-D GVF snakes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5369, Issue , 2004, Pages 539-549

  Ching, Yu Tai ^a   Lin, Chih Yang ^a   Tan, Kheng Chong ^a   Lau, Kiang Long ^a   Yang, C H ^b   Lin, C A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D geometric model construction; Active contour; Computational fluid dynamics; Gradient vector flow; Rectangular mesh; Urodynamic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA REDUCTION; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; UROLOGY;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF); URODYNAMICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 3042641434     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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