Nonlinear virtual colon unfolding

  • Authors:
  • Anna Vilanova Bartrolí;Rainer Wegenkittl;Andreas König;Eduard Gröller

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology;Tiani Medgraph;Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology;Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The majority of virtual endoscopy techniques tries to simulate a real endoscopy. A real endoscopy does not always give the optimal information due to the physical limitations it is subject to. In this paper, we deal with the unfolding of the surface of the colon as a possible visualization technique for diagnosis and polyp detection. A new two-step technique is presented which deals with the problems of double appearance of polyps and nonuniform sampling that other colon unfolding techniques suffer from. In the first step, a distance map from a central path induces nonlinear rays for unambiguous parameterization of the surface. The second step compensates for locally varying distortions of the unfolded surface. A technique similar to magnification fields in information visualization is hereby applied. The technique produces a single view of a complete, virtually dissected colon.