The analysis of medical images, such as Computed Tomography (CT) Images, increasingly requires an automatic processing for region enhancement, segmentation, 3D reconstruction and many other purposes. This paper presents a framework for performing these tasks using partial differential equations in 3D images. From a set of partial differential equations, we obtain a method for noise reduction filtering with edge preservation, region enhancement through the discrimination of the relevant density values, contour refinement and 3D reconstruction.
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Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), 2011 Seventh International Conference on
Date of Conference: Nov. 28 2011-Dec. 1 2011