Delineation of tagged region by use of local iso-surface roughness in electronic cleansing for CT colonography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Cai, Wenli ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a   Zalis, Michael ^a   Näppi, Janne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Computer aided diagnosis; X ray and CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEGRADATION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TISSUE;

ELECTRONIC CLEANSING (EC); ISO-SURFACE ROUGHNESS; L-T BOUNDARIES; SOFT-TISSUE STRUCTURES; X-RAYOPAQUE ORAL CONTRAST;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248869370     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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