3D COLONIC POLYP DETECTION IN CT IMAGES USING TEMPLATE MATCHING

Year 2007, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 411 - 418, 02.01.2012

Serhat Özekes

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• Education in 2000, 2002 and 2006 respectively. He has been working as lecturer in Istanbul
• Commerce University since 2002. Recently he is studying on medical image processing.