Thin Structure Segmentation and Visualization in Three-Dimensional Biomedical Images: A Shape-Based Approach

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-102

  Huang, Adam ^a   Nielson, Gregory M ^b   Razdan, Anshuman ^c   Farin, Gerald E ^b   Baluch, D Page ^d   Capco, David G ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography biomedical image processing; Hessian matrix; image enhancement; laser scanning confocal microscopy; multiscale filtering; segmentation; visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33644796363     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.15     Document Type: Article

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