Abstract
We propose a hybrid method using both geometric and intensity information to reconstruct multiple curved object boundaries from sparse sets of X-ray images. We have implementated this approach and present several examples on real and synthetic data.
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Sullivan, S., Noble, A., Ponce, J. (1995). On Reconstructing Curved Object Boundaries from Sparse Sets of X-Ray Images. In: Ayache, N. (eds) Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine. CVRMed 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49197-2_48
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