3D visualization to assist iterative object definition from medical images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 217-230

  Audigier, Romaric ^a   Lotufo, Roberto ^a   Falcão, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Image foresting transform; Interactive image segmentation; Raycasting; Rendering of medical images; Voxel splatting; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; IMAGE FORESTING TRANSFORM; INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RAYCASTING; RENDERING OF MEDICAL IMAGES; VOXEL SPLATTING; WATERSHED TRANSFORMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 33746192501     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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