Two moving coordinate frames for sweeping along a 3D trajectory
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Efficient ray tracing of volume data
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Virtual voyage: interactive navigation in the human colon
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Interactive volume rendering for virtual colonoscopy
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
An improved seeded region growing algorithm
Pattern Recognition Letters
Interactive ray tracing for isosurface rendering
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98
Volume rendering based interactive navigation within the human colon (case study)
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Nonlinear virtual colon unfolding
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
Computed tomography angiography: a case study of peripheral vessel investigation
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
CPR: curved planar reformation
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Non-distorting Flattening for Virtual Colonoscopy
MICCAI '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Towards a comprehensive volume visualization system
VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
Light Weight Space Leaping using Ray Coherence
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
The VesselGlyph: Focus & Context Visualization in CT-Angiography
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
EGVISSYM'01 Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Vessel visualization using curvicircular feature aggregation
EuroVis '13 Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization
EuroVis '13 Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization
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Curved Planar Reformation (CPR) has proved to be a practical and widely used tool for the visualization of curved tubular structures within the human body. It has been useful in medical procedures involving the examination of blood vessels and the spine. However, it is more difficult to use it for large, tubular, structures such as the trachea and the colon because abnormalities may be smaller relative to the size of the structure and may not have such distinct density and shape characteristics.Our new approach improves on this situation by using volume rendering for hollow regions and standard CPR for the surrounding tissue. This effectively combines gray scale contextual information with detailed color information from the area of interest. The approach is successfully used with each of the standard CPR types and the resulting images are promising as an alternative to virtual endoscopy.Because the CPR and the volume rendering are tightly coupled, the projection method used has a significant effect on properties of the volume renderer such as distortion and isometry. We describe and compare the different CPR projection methods and how they affect the volume rendering process.A version of the algorithm is also presented which makes use of importance driven techniques; this ensures the users attention is always focused on the area of interest and also improves the speed of the algorithm.