Virtual reality in medicine-computer graphics and interaction techniques

Authors:
M. Haubner;C. Krapichler;A. Losch;K. -H. Englmeier;W. Van Eimeren
Affiliations:
Inst. of Med. Inf. & Health Services Res., GSF-Nat. Res. Center for Environ. & Health, Neuherberg, Germany;-;-;-;-
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Year:
1997

Citing 0
Cited 4

Efficiently using graphics hardware in volume rendering applications

Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Introduction

Integrated image and graphics technologies
An octree-based multiresolution hybrid framework

Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Computer graphics and geometric modeling
An octree-based multiresolution hybrid framework

Future Generation Computer Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The paper describes several new visualization and interaction techniques that enable the use of virtual environments for routine medical purposes. A new volume-rendering method supports shaded and transparent visualization of medical image sequences in real-time with an interactive threshold definition. Based on these rendering algorithms two complementary segmentation approaches offer an intuitive assistance for a wide range of requirements in diagnosis and therapy planning. In addition, a hierarchical data representation for geometric surface descriptions guarantees an optimal use of available hardware resources and prevents inaccurate visualization. The combination of the presented techniques empowers the improved human-machine interface of virtual reality to support every interactive task in medical three-dimensional (3-D) image processing, from visualization of unsegmented data volumes up to the simulation of surgical procedures.