Whole-body pregnant woman modeling by digital geometry processing with detailed uterofetal unit based on medical images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 1, 2010, Pages 2346-2358

  Bibin, Lazar ^a   Anquez, Jérémie ^a   De La Plata Alcalde, Juan Pablo ^a   Boubekeur, Tamy ^a   Angelini, Elsa D ^a   Bloch, Isabelle ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomical modeling; Computer graphics; Fetus; Medical imaging; Mesh generation and deformation; MRI; Pregnant woman; Segmentation; Three dimensional ultrasound (3 DUS)

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL MODELING; FETUS; MRI; PREGNANT WOMAN; SEGMENTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER MODEL; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77956967972     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2053367     Document Type: Article

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