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CEASAR: a smooth, accurate and robust centerline extraction algorithm

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IEEE Visualization archive
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00 table of contents

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Pages: 45 - 52

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-309-X

Authors

Ingmar Bitter
Mie Sato
Michael Bender
Kevin T. McDonnell
Arie Kaufman
Ming Wan	SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

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IEEE-CS\TCVCG : TC on Visualization and Computer Graphics
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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IEEE Computer Society Press Los Alamitos, CA, USA

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	Ming Wan , Frank Dachille , Arie Kaufman, Distance-field based skeletons for virtual navigation, Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01, October 21-26, 2001, San Diego, California
	Ingmar Bitter , Arie E. Kaufman , Mie Sato, Penalized-Distance Volumetric Skeleton Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, v.7 n.3, p.195-206, July 2001
	Byeong-Seok Shin , Sukhyun Lim , Hye-Jin Lee, Efficient unfolding of virtual endoscopy using linear ray interpolation, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, v.93 n.2, p.174-184, February, 2009
	Xiaopeng Zhang , Jianfei Liu , Zili Li , Marc Jaeger, Volume decomposition and hierarchical skeletonization, Proceedings of The 7th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, December 08-09, 2008, Singapore
	M. Ding , Ruof. Tong , Sheng-hui Liao , JinX. Dong, An extension to 3D topological thinning method based on LUT for colon centerline extraction, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, v.94 n.1, p.39-47, April, 2009