A method for specifying unobserved regions in virtual endoscopy system

International Congress Series

Volumn 1230, Issue C, 2001, Pages 454-461

  Mori, Kensaku ^a   Hayashi, Yuichiro ^a   Toriwaki, Jun ichiro ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Hasegawa, Jun ichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Fly through; Navigation; Unobserved regions; Virtual colonoscopy; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 9244246073     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00051-6     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Rogalla, P, Terwisscha van Scheltinga, J, Hamm, B, (eds.) Virtual Endoscopy and Related 3D Techniques, 2001, Springer.
2. Mori, K, Urano, A, Hasegawa, J, Toriwaki, J, Anno, H, Katada, K, Virtualized Endoscope System—an application of virtual reality technology to diagnostic aid. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. E79-D:6 (1996), 809-819.
3. Mori, K, Hasegawa, J, Toriwaki, J, Anno, H, Katada, K, Bronchus endoscope simulation system based on three dimensional X-ray CT images (Virtualized Endoscope System). Jpn. J. Med. Electron. Biol. Eng. 33 (1995), 343-351.
4. Lorensen, W.E., Jolesz, F.A., Kikinis, R, The exploration of cross-sectional data with a virtual endoscopy. Interactive Technology and the New Medical Paradigm for Health Care, 1995, IOS Press, 221-230.
5. Hong, L, Kaufman, A, Wei, Y, Viswambharan, A, Wax, M, Liang, Z, 3D virtual colonoscopy. Proc. of Biomedical Visualization '95, 1995, 26-32.
6. Hong, L, Muraki, S, Kaufman, A, Bartz, D, He, T, Virtual voyage: interactive navigation in the human colon. Comput. Graphics (Proc. of Siggraph '97), 1997, 27-34.
7. Paik, D.S., Beaulieu, C.F., Jeffrey, R.B., Rubin, G.D., Napel, S, Automated path planning for virtual endoscopy. Med. Phys. 25:5 (1998), 629-637.
8. He, T, Hong, L, Reliable navigation for virtual endoscopy. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, 1999.
9. Drebin, R.A., Carpenter, L, Hanrahan, P, Volume rendering. Comput. Graphics (Proc. of Siggraph' 88) 22:4 (1988), 65-74.
10. Levoy, M, Display of surface from volume data. IEEE Comput. Graphics Appl. 8:3 (1998), 29-37.
11. Saito, T, Mori, K, Suenaga, Y, Hasegawa, J, Toriwaki, J, Katada, K, A method for specifying three dimensional interested regions on volume rendered images and its evaluation for virtual endoscopy system. Proc. of CARS 2000, 2000, 91-96.
12. Mori, K, Higuchi, Y, Suenaga, Y, Toriwaki, J, Hasegawa, J, Katada, K, A method of interactive specification of interested regions via a volume rendered image with application to virtualized endoscope system. Proc. SPIE, Med. Imaging 3978 (2000), 134-145.