Quantitative assessment of colon distention for polyp detection in CT virtual colonoscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6143 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Uitert, Robert ^a   Bitter, Ingmar ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Choi, J Richard ^b,c   Pickhardt, Perry J ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Colon; Colon cancer; Computer aided detection; CT; Image processing

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; COLON; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745394442     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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