A functional-based segmentation of human body scans in arbitrary postures

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-165

  Werghi, Naoufel ^a   Xiao, Yijun ^b   Siebert, Jan Paul ^b  

^a Dubai University College   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D surface topology; 3 D whole body scanners; Human body shape analysis; Reeb graph; Scattered 3 D range data segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

HUMAN BODY SHAPE ANALYSIS; REEB GRAPH; SURFACE TOPOLOGY; WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 31744432195     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.854503     Document Type: Article

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