FPGA-based real-time 3D image preprocessing for image-guided medical interventions

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-301

  Dandekar, Omkar ^a,b   Castro Pareja, Carlos ^b   Shekhar, Raj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D anisotropic diffusion; 3D median filtering; Field programmable gate array; Image guided interventions; Real time image processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEDICAL IMAGING; QUANTUM OPTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

3D MEDIAN FILTERING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS (IGI); IMAGING MODALITIES; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34547237703     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-007-0028-y     Document Type: Article

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