Biomedical image skeletonization: A novel method applied to fibrin network structures

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 901-905

  Chang, Sukmoon ^a   Kulikowski, Casimir A ^a   Dunn, Stanley M ^b   Levy, Saul ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature Extraction; Image Processing; Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGES; EXPLICIT OBJECTS; HIGH ORDER DERIVATIVES; MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; SKELETONIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FIBRIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; FIBRIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84888059507     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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