A novel approach to extract colon lumen from ct images for virtual colonoscopy - medical imaging, ieee transactions on
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, VOL. 19, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2000 A Novel Approach to Extract Colon Lumen from CT Images for Virtual Colonoscopy Dongqing Chen*, Member, IEEE, Zhengrong Liang, Member, IEEE, Mark R. Wax, Lihong Li, Student Member, IEEE, Bin Li, and Arie E. Kaufman, Member, IEEE Abstract—An automatic method has been developed for