Extracting curve skeletons from gray value images for virtual endoscopy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5128 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 393-402

  Bauer, Christian ^a   Bischof, Horst ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VECTORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APPLICATIONS.; AUGMENTED REALITY; CENTER LINES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CURVE SKELETONS; DATA-SETS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; GRAY VALUES; HIGH-QUALITY; SKELETONIZATION; STENOSES; TO CURVE; TUBULAR NETWORKS; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 50249113855     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79982-5_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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