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Volume rendering is a technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. It has applications in areas such as medical imaging and scientific visualization, but its use has been limited by its high computational expense. Early implementations of volume rendering used brute-force techniques

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OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to assess physiologic lung deformation and compression originating from cardiovascular motion and their subsequent impact on determining the volume of small pulmonary nodules throughout the cardiac cycle on ECG-gated MDCT. SUBJECTS AND METHODS. Seventy

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Abstract—An overview is presented of the medical image processing literature on mutual-information-based registration. The aim of the survey is threefold: an introduction for those new to the field, an overview for those working in the field, and a reference for those searching for literature on a

This article proposes a robust statistical estimation and verification framework for characterizing the ellipsoidal (anisotropic) geometrical structure of pulmonary nodules in the Multislice X-ray CT images. Given a marker indicating a rough location of a target, the proposed solution estimates

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was widely studied in computer vision and graphics communities. We provide links to a large number of known extensions based on iterative parameter re-estimation and learning, multi-scale or hierarchical approaches, narrow bands, and other techniques for demanding photo, video, and medical applications.

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