CAVASS: A framework for medical imaging applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7497, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Grevera, George ^a,b   Udupa, Jayaram ^b   Odhner, Dewey ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DICOM; Image processing; Registration; Rendering; Segmentation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED VISUALIZATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DICOM; DICOM FORMAT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE FORMAT; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; KEY FEATURE; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCES; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PENNSYLVANIA; PROCESSING OPERATIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEST ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; VISUALIZATION; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 71649094653     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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