Deformable registration of prone and supine colons for CT colonography

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1997-2000

  Suh, Jung W ^b   Wyatt, Christopher L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYPS; CT COLONOGRAPHY (CTC); PRONE SCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COLON; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSTURE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34047152368     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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