Loop removal from colon central path through skeleton scale-space tracking

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

Volumn 3804 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 68-75

  Lamy, Julien ^a,b   Ronse, Christian ^a   Soler, Luc ^b  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b IRCAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; TOPOLOGY;

COLON SKELETON; CT MEDICAL IMAGES; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

PATHOLOGY;

EID: 33744803495     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11595755_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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