Semi-automatic anatomical tree matching for landmark-based elastic registration of liver volumes

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-123

  Drechsler, Klaus ^a   Laura, Cristina Oyarzun ^a   Chen, Yufei ^a   Erdt, Marius ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomical Trees; Interactive refinement; Liver; Tree matching; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650846765     PISSN: 20402295     EISSN: 20402309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.1.1.101     Document Type: Article

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