Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
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A signal processing approach to fair surface design
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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Surface simplification using quadric error metrics
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and curvature flow
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Reducing aliasing artifacts in iso-surfaces of binary volumes
VVS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Feature sensitive surface extraction from volume data
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Visualization and interaction techniques for the exploration of vascular structures
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Patient-Specific Simulation of Carotid Artery Stenting Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Constrained Elastic Surface Nets: Generating Smooth Surfaces from Binary Segmented Data
MICCAI '98 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Improving Triangle Mesh Quality with SurfaceNets
MICCAI '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Adaptive Fairing of Surface Meshes by Geometric Diffusion
IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
Non-iterative, feature-preserving mesh smoothing
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
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SIGGRAPH '05 ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Courses
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Surface Mesh Smoothing, Regularization, and Feature Detection
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
A new feature-preserving mesh-smoothing algorithm
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
A sharpness dependent filter for mesh smoothing
Computer Aided Geometric Design - Special issue: Geometry processing
Staircase-aware smoothing of medical surface meshes
EG VCBM'10 Proceedings of the 2nd Eurographics conference on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
Efficient display of background objects for virtual endoscopy using flexible first-hit ray casting
VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
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Smoothing algorithms allow to reduce artifacts from mesh generation, but often degrade accuracy. Thus, we present a method that identifies staircase artifacts which result from image inhomogeneities and binary segmentation in medical image data for subsequent removal by adaptive mesh smoothing. This paper makes the following specific contributions: caps, which are flat regions, resulting from segmentation or clipping at the endings of anatomical structures are detected and modified by smoothing; the effects of the adaptive smoothing method involving context information are quantitatively analyzed with respect to accuracy and their influence on blood flow simulations; the image stack orientation, which is relevant for this context-aware smoothing approach, is estimated automatically from the surface models. Thus, context-aware smoothing enables to adaptively smooth artifact areas, while non-artifact features can be preserved. The approach has been applied to CT neck datasets, as well as phantom data and the results are evaluated regarding smoothness and model accuracy. The accuracy of model orientation estimation and cap detection has been evaluated for clinical and phantom data. Finally, context-aware smoothing has been applied to CT angiography data for the simulation of blood flow. The simulation results are presented and prove the general suitability of context-aware smoothing.