A morphology-based approach for interslice interpolation of anatomical slices from volumetric images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2022-2038

  Albu, Alexandra Branzan ^a   Beugeling, Trevor ^a   Laurendeau, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Shape based interpolation; Volumetric imaging

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; KETONES; TOPOLOGY;

ALGORITHMIC DESIGNS; ANATOMICAL SLICES; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CURRENT TRANSFORMER (CT); DATA-SETS; GRADUAL CHANGES; INPUT DATA; INTERPOLATION PROCESS; OBJECT BASED; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

INTERPOLATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 47649109796     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.921158     Document Type: Article

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