A thinning algorithm to extract medial lines from 3D medical images

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

Volumn 1230, Issue , 1997, Pages 411-416

  Palágyi, Kálmán ^a   Kuba, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; ITERATIVE METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

3D MEDICAL IMAGE; BINARY OBJECTS; BONY STRUCTURES; MEDIAL SURFACES; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC DATA; THINNING ALGORITHM; TOPOLOGY PRESERVING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84956867216     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63046-5_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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