Real-time volume rendering visualization of dual-modality PET/CT images with interactive fuzzy thresholding segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-169

  Kim, Jinman ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Eberl, Stefan ^a,b   Feng, Dagan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dual modality positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET CT); Fuzzy C means cluster analysis; Interactive three dimensional (3 D) segmentation; Multi volume rendering; Real time volume rendering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA VISUALIZATION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME RENDERING;

INTERACTIVE FUZZY THRESHOLDING SEGMENTATION; RESPONSIVE FRAME RATES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34047109128     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.875669     Document Type: Article

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