Fast and robust extraction of centerlines in 3D tubular structures using a scattered-snakelet approach

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Spuhler, Christoph ^a   Harders, Matthias ^a   Székely, Gábor ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Centerline Extraction; Skeletonization; Snakes; Virtual Colonoscopy; Virtual Endoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA STRUCTURES; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; SKELETONIZATION; SNAKES; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33745126654     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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