A sequential 3D thinning algorithm and its medical applications

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

Volumn 2082, Issue , 2001, Pages 409-415

  Palágyi, Kálmán ^a   Sorantin, Erich ^b   Balogh, Emese ^a   Kuba, Attila ^a   Halmai, Csongor ^a   ErdŐhelyi, Balázs ^a   Hausegger, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

3D THINNING; OBJECT REDUCTION; SHAPE FEATURES; TOPOLOGY PRESERVING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84937426622     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45729-1_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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