Colon segmentation for prepless virtual colonoscopy

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 709-715

  Taimouri, Vahid ^a   Liu, Xin ^b   Lai, Zhaoqiang ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Pai, Darshan ^a   Hua, Jing ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b YUEBEI PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Colon segmentation; CT colonography (CTC); electronic colon cleansing (ECC)

Indexed keywords

COLON CLEANSING; COLON SEGMENTATION; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CT COLONOGRAPHY; CT SCAN; ELECTRONIC COLON CLEANSING; FECAL MATERIALS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; OPTICAL COLONOSCOPY; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

AIR CLEANERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOSCOPY; EXTRACTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80052596854     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2155664     Document Type: Article

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