Automatic correction of level set based subvoxel accurate centerlines for virtual colonoscopy

2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 303-306

  Van Uitert, Robert ^a   Bitter, Ingmar ^a   Franaszek, Marek ^a   Summers, Ronald ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCEROUS POLYPS; COLON CANCER; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33750944387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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