Fusion viewer: A new tool for fusion and visualization of multimodal medical data sets

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Baum, Karl G ^a   Helguera, María ^a   Krol, Andrzej ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical image viewing; Contrast enhancement; Fusion visualization; Image analysis; Image contrast; Image display; Image fusion; Image viewer; Image visualization; Imaging; Multimodal imaging; Multimodality visualization; Three dimensional; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL IMAGE VIEWING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FUSION VISUALIZATION; IMAGE CONTRAST; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE VIEWER; IMAGE VISUALIZATION; IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIMODALITY VISUALIZATION; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PLASMA WAVES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54949139568     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9082-z     Document Type: Article

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