Differential Fly-Throughs (DFT): A general framework for computing flight paths

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

Volumn 3749 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 654-661

  Hassouna, M Sabry ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a   Falk, Robert ^b  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE TRANSFORM; FLIGHT PATHS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ENDOSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744808304     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11566465_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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