A new color coding scheme for easy polyp visualization in CT-based virtual colonoscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Dongqing ^a   Sabry Hassouna, M ^b   Farag, Aly A ^a   Falk, Robert ^c  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b Vital Images   (United States)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Color coding; Colorectal cancer; Curvature based geometric features; Topological and geometrical property; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CURVATURE-BASED GEOMETRIC FEATURES; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE CODING; RADIOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

ENDOSCOPY;

EID: 35248852567     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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