Divergence-based medial surfaces

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

Volumn 1842, Issue , 2000, Pages 603-618

  Bouix, Sylvain ^a   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOPOLOGY;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PER UNIT VOLUME; THINNING PROCESS; VOLUMETRIC OBJECT;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 84944254235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45054-8_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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