3D tubular structure extraction using kernel-based superellipsoid model with Gaussian process regression

2012 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Qingxiang ^a   Zheng, Dayu ^a   Xiong, Hongkai ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D tubular structure extraction; Gaussian process; nonlinear prediction; superellipsoid model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CENTERLINES; COMPLICATED STRUCTURES; GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; LARGE AMOUNTS; MODELING APPROACH; NON-LINEAR PREDICTIONS; NON-UNIFORM; SUPERELLIPSOID; TUBULAR OBJECTS; TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84874030317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VCIP.2012.6410763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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