Automated centerline tracking of the human colon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3338, Issue , 1998, Pages 740-746

  Samara, Yaseen ^a   Fiebich, Martin ^a   Dachman, Abraham H ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Centerline; Colon cancer; Virtual colonoscopy; Volume growing

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CENTERLINE; CENTERLINES; CENTERS OF MASS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYPS; EARLY DETECTIONS; ENDOLUMINAL; GROWTH STEPS; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; HUMAN COLONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SEED POINTS; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; VOLUME GROWING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345453052     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.310953     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. M. OאBrien, S.Winawer, and A.Zauber, 1The National Polyp Study: Patient and Polyp Characteristics Associated with High Grade Dysplasia in Colorectal Adenomasx, Gastroenterology, vol.98, pp. 371-379, 1990.
2. J.Potter and M.Slatterly, 1Colon Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiologyx, Epidemiology Review, vol. 15, pp. 499-545, 1993.
3. L.Hong, J.Liang, A.Viswambharan, A.Kaufman, and M.Wax, 1Reconstruction and Visualization of 3D Models of Colonic Surfacex, IEEE Transactions of Nuclear Science, vol. 44 no.3, pp. 1297-1302, 1997.
4. American Cancer Society, 1Summary of current guidelines for cancer related checkup: recommendationsx, New York: American Cancer Society, 1989.
5. National Cancer Institute, 1Working guidelines for early cancer detection: rationale and supporting evidence to decrease mortalityx, Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 1987.
6. G.W.Hunt, P.F.Hemler, and D.J.Vining, 1Automated Virtual Colonoscopyx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display, Y.Kim ed. , vol.3031, pp. 535-541.
7. D.J.Vining, P.F.Hemler, D.R.Stelts, D.K.Ahn, Y.Ge, G.W.Hunt, C.Siege, D.Mccorquodale, and D.M.Honea, 1Virtual Endoscopy: Quicker and Easier Disease Evaluationx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1997: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, E.A. Hoffman ed., vol.3033, pp.415-423.
8. A.K.Hara, C.D.Johnson, J.E.Reed, R.L.Ehman, and D.M.Ilstrup, 1Colorectal Polyp Detection with CT Colography: Two- versus Three-dimensional Techniquesx, Radiology, vol.200, pp. 49-54.
9. J.E.Reed and C.D.Johnson, 1Automatic Segmentation, Tissue Characterization, and Rapid Diagnosis Enhancements to the Computed Tomographic Colonography Analyis Workstationx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1997: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, E.A. Hoffman ed., vol.3033, pp. 433-440.
10. D.J.Blezek, R.A.Robb, and C.M.Prather, 1Virtual Endoscopy vs. Real Endoscopy: A Comparative Evaluationx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display, Y.Kim ed., vol.3031, pp. 542-552.
11. K.Ramaswamy and W.E.Higgins, 1Endoscopic Exploration and Measurement in 3D Radiologic Imagesx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing, M.H.Loew and K.M.Hanson eds., vol.2710, pp. 511-523.
12. J.E.Reed, A.K.Hara, and C.D.Johnson, 1Interpretation of Image Sets Containing Convoluted Tubular Structures via Transluminal Sections and Steerable Intraluminal Perspective Viewsx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing, M.H.Loew and K.M.Hanson eds., vol.2710, pp. 1009-1019.
13. E.G.McFarland, G.Wang, J.A. Brink, D.M.Balfe, J.P.Heiken, and M.W.Vannier, 1Spiral Computed Tomographic Colonography: Determination of the Central Axis and Digital Unraveling of the Colonx, Academic Radiology, vol.4, pp. 367-373, 1997.
14. F.Jolesz, W.Lorenson, H.Shinmoto, H.Atsumi, S.Nakajima, P.Kavanaugh, P.Saiviroonporn, S.Seltzer, S.Silverman, M.Phillips and R.Kikinis, Interactive Virtual Endoscopy, AJR, vol. 169, pp. 1229-1235, 1997.
15. E.G.McFarland, J.Loh, J.A.Brink, D.M.Balfe, J.P.Heiken, B.Brunsden, G.Wang, and M.W.Vannier, 1Colonic Polyp Detection with Spiral CT Colonographyx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1997: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, E.A. Hoffman ed., vol.3033, pp. 424-432.
16. S.Napel, G.D.Rubin, C.F. Beaulieu, J.R.Brooke, and V.Argiro, 1Perspective Volume Rendering of cross-sectional Images for Simulated Endoscopy and Intra-parenchymal Viewingx, Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging 1996: Image Display, Y.Kim ed., vol.2707, pp. 75-86.