A novel visualization method for the ribs within chest volume data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6141, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kiraly, Atilla P ^a   Qing, Shuping ^a   Shen, Hong ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Center line; Computed tomography; Rib metastases; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CENTER-LINE; MULTIPLE SLICES; RIB METASTASES; TRACING BASED SEGMENTATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATHOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745364675     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.651690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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