Fast evolution of image manifolds and application to filtering and segmentation in 3D medical images

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 525-535

  Deschamps, Thomas ^a   Malladi, Ravi ^a   Rawe, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beltrami flow; Eikonal equation; Fast marching; Segmentation; Subjective surfaces; Unconditionally stable scheme; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

BELTRAMI FLOW; EIKONAL EQUATION; FAST-MARCHING; SEGMENTATION; SUBJECTIVE SURFACES; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE SCHEME; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 4344631031     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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