Guest editorial: Medical imaging informatics - An information processing from image formation to visualization

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Liang, Jerome Zhengrong ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Metaxas, Dimitris N ^c   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

IMAGING INFORMATICS;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84888465126     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467807002568     Document Type: Review

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