3-D surface reconstruction of patient specific anatomic data using a pre-specified number of polygons

S. Aharon; R. A. Robb

doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-883-0-430

3-D surface reconstruction of patient specific anatomic data using a pre-specified number of polygons

S. Aharon, R. A. Robb

Physiology & Biomedical Engineering

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Virtual reality environments provide highly interactive, natural control of the visualization process, significantly enhancing the scientific value of the data produced by medical imaging systems. Due to the computational and real time display update requirements of virtual reality interfaces, however, the complexity of organ and tissue surfaces which can be displayed is limited. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for the production of a polygonal surface containing a pre-specified number of polygons from patient or subject specific volumetric image data. The advantage of this new algorithm is that it effectively tiles complex structures with a specified number of polygons selected to optimize the trade-off between surface detail and real-time display rates.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	430-439
Number of pages	10
Journal	Studies in health technology and informatics
Volume	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-883-0-430
State	Published - 1997

Keywords

Kohonen network
Medical imaging
Surface modeling
Virtual reality

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Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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