Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 22-34 , February 2011

Segmentation and reconstruction of vascular structures for 3D real-time simulation

  • Xunlei Wu

      Affiliations

    • Renaissance Computing Inst., Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    • The SIM Group and Department of Imaging, Mass. General Hospital, Cambridge, USA
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  • Vincent Luboz

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, UK
    • The SIM Group and Department of Imaging, Mass. General Hospital, Cambridge, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Dept. of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, UK. Tel.: +44 (0) 207 886 6379; fax: +44 (0) 207 886 6309.
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  • Karl Krissian

      Affiliations

    • Dept de Informática y Sistemas, Univ. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
    • ,
  • Stephane Cotin

      Affiliations

    • ALCOVE Team, INRIA Lille – North Europe, France
    • The SIM Group and Department of Imaging, Mass. General Hospital, Cambridge, USA
    • ,
  • Steve Dawson

      Affiliations

    • The SIM Group and Department of Imaging, Mass. General Hospital, Cambridge, USA

Received 22 March 2009 ,Revised 7 June 2010 ,Accepted 21 June 2010.

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☆ The work presented in this paper is solely the result of the authors research and no opinion or endowment by the Department of Defense should be inferred.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2010.06.006

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 22-34 , February 2011

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