Branch voxels and junctions in 3D skeletons

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

Volumn 4040 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 34-44

  Klette, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

3D curve analysis; 3D skeletons; Astrocytes; Branch index; Branch nodes; Medical image analysis; Thinning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

3D CURVE ANALYSIS; 3D SKELETONS; ASTROCYTES; BRANCH INDEX; BRANCH NODES; THINNING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33746239236     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11774938_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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