An efficient colon segmentation method for oral contrast-enhanced CT colonography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3429-3432

  Bidgoli, J H ^a,b   Ahmadian, A ^a,b   Akhlaghpor, S ^c   Alam, N R ^a,b   Mahmodabadi, S Z ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computed cleansing; Computed tomography; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

COLONIC WALLS; COMPUTED CLEANSING; CONTRAST ENHANCED FLUIDS (CEF); VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33846911315     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1617215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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