Autonomous virtual mobile robot for three-dimensional medical image exploration: Application to micro-CT cochlear images

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Ferrarini, Luca ^a,c   Verbist, Berit M ^a,c   Olofsen, Hans ^a,c   Vanpoucke, Filiep ^b,c   Frijns, Johan H M ^a,c   Reiber, Johan H C ^a,c   Admiraal Behloul, Faiza ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Waterfront Research Park   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central line detection; Micro CT cochlear images; NeuroFuzzy controller; Virtual endoscopy; Virtual mobile robot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENDOSCOPY; FUZZY CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CENTRAL LINE DETECTION; MICRO CT COCHLEAR IMAGES; NEUROFUZZY CONTROLLERS; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY; VIRTUAL MOBILE ROBOTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COCHLEA; ENDOSCOPE; FUZZY SYSTEM; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEASUREMENT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COCHLEA; ENDOSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749092077     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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