Colon cleansing for virtual colonoscopy using non-linear transfer function and morphological operations

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Skalski, A ^a,b   Socha, M ^a,b   Zielinski T ^a,b   Duplaga, M ^b  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; Colon cleansing; Computed tomography (CT); Virtual colonoscopy (VC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

3D SEGMENTATION; COLON CLEANSING; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY (VC);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 34748916585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ist.2007.379575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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