Flux driven fly throughs

Authors:
Sylvain Bouix;Kaleem Siddiqi;Allen Tannenbaum
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;School of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Venue:
CVPR'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We present a fast, robust and automatic method for computing central paths through tubular structures for application to virtual endoscopy. The key idea is to utilize a medial surface algorithm which exploits properties of the average outward flux of the gradient vector field of a Euclidean distance function the boundary of the structure of interest. The algorithm is modified to yield a collection of 3D curves, each of which is locally centered. The approach requires no user interaction, is virtually parameter free and has low computational complexity. We illustrate the approach on segmented colon and vessel data.