Ruler Based Automatic C-Arm Image Stitching Without Overlapping Constraint

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 474-480

  Chen, Cheng ^a   Kojcev, Risto ^a   Haschtmann, Daniel ^b   Fekete, Tamas ^b   Nolte, Lutz ^a   Zheng, Guoyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image processing; Image stitching; Long bone; Number detection; Radiographic image enhancement; Spine

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBOTIC ARMS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGES; IMAGE STITCHING; LONG BONE; OVERLAPPING CONSTRAINTS; PANORAMIC IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SPINE;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; CADAVER; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84937968736     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-014-9763-3     Document Type: Article

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