Shape reconstruction from medical images and quality mesh generation via implicit surfaces

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1339-1360

  Peiro J ^a   Formaggia, L ^b   Gazzola, M ^a,b   Radaelli, A ^a,c   Rigamonti, V ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Implicit surfaces; Medical image processing; Mesh enhancement; Mesh generation; Radial basis functions; Shape reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

IMPLICIT SURFACE; MESH ENHANCEMENT; SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

EID: 33847702048     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1362     Document Type: Article

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