A method for detecting undisplayed regions in virtual colonoscopy and its application to quantitative evaluation of fly-through methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2489, Issue , 2002, Pages 631-638

  Hayashi, Yuichiro ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a,b   Hasegawa, Jun Ichi ^c   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Toriwaki, Jun Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; ITS APPLICATIONS; MEDIAL AXES; MEDIAL AXIS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 35048832214     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45787-9_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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