Real-time range imaging in health care: A survey

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8200 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 228-254

  Bauer, Sebastian ^a   Seitel, Alexander ^b,c   Hofmann, Hannes ^d   Blum, Tobias ^e   Wasza, Jakob ^a   Balda, Michael ^d   Meinzer, Hans Peter ^c   Navab, Nassir ^e   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Maier Hein, Lena ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Junior Group: Computer assisted Interventions ^*  (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d Metrilus GmbH   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

3D IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED; ELDERLY CARE; ON DYNAMICS; RANGE IMAGING; RESEARCH ISSUES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT IMAGING; WORKFLOW ANALYSIS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84893750929     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44964-2_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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