Volumetric curved planar reformation for virtual endoscopy

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-119

  Williams, David ^a   Grimm, Sören ^b   Coto, Ernesto ^c   Roudsari, Abdul ^a   Hatzakis, Haralambos ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Biotronics3D Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Colon screening; Curved planar reformation; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

COLON SCREENING; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION (CPR); TUBULAR STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY;

ENDOSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 36348932905     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1068     Document Type: Article

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