A novel method for pulmonary emboli visualization from high-resolution CT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5367, Issue , 2004, Pages 161-170

  Pichon, Eric ^a   Novak, Carol L ^b   Kiraly, Atilla P ^b   Naidich, David P ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Detection; Pulmonary Embolism; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DETECTION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE); SHADED SURFACE DISPLAY; SIGNED DISTANCE MAPS;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PULMONARY DISEASES; VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 5644251772     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.532892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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