Virtual colonoscopy screening with ultra low-dose CT and less-stressful bowel preparation: A computer simulation study

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2566-2575

  Wang, Jing ^a   Wang, Su ^b   Li, Lihong ^c   Fan, Yi ^b   Lu, Hongbing ^d   Liang, Zhengrong ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Karhunen Love transform; Low dose computed tomography; Noise reduction; Partial volume image segmentation; Penalized weighted least squares; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIPELINES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY;

KARHUNEN-LOVE TRANSFORM; LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PARTIAL VOLUME IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARES; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57849132599     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2004557     Document Type: Article

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