Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 339-347 , May 2006

Automatic navigation path generation based on two-phase adaptive region-growing algorithm for virtual angioscopy

  • Do-Yeon Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungnam National University, 220 Gung-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Taejon 305-764, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 108-302 CheongGu Apt., 462-4 Jeonmin-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Taejon 305-729, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 42 868 4342; fax: +82 42 861 1488.
    • ,
  • Sung-Mo Chung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Jong-Won Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungnam National University, 220 Gung-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Taejon 305-764, Republic of Korea

Received 21 October 2004 ,Revised 12 July 2005 ,Accepted 12 July 2005.

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PII: S1350-4533(05)00151-7

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.011

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 339-347 , May 2006

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