3D skeleton for virtual colonoscopy

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

Volumn 1131, Issue , 1996, Pages 449-454

  Ge, Yaorong ^a,b   Stelts, David R ^b   Vining, David J ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D skeleton; Thinning; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION;

3D SKELETON; BINARY OBJECTS; CENTRAL PATH; CLINICAL APPLICATION; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; THINNING; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84947720421     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0046985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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