Combining a morphological interpolation approach with a surface reconstruction method for the 3-D representation of tomographic data

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 565-579

  Mouravliansky, N ^a   Matsopoulos, G K ^a   Delibasis, K ^a   Asvestas, P ^a   Nikita, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3 D visualization; Marching Cubes Algorithm; Mathematical morphology; Medical interpolation; Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; INTERPOLATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELEMEDICINE;

3-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; MARCHING CUBES ALGORITHM; MEDICAL INTERPOLATION; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 7044233745     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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