IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Spatial Knowledge Representation for Visualization of Human Anatomy and Function
IPMI '93 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Opacity-weighted color interpolation, for volume sampling
VVS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
A practical evaluation of popular volume rendering algorithms
VVS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Illustrative shadows: integrating 3D and 2D information displays
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A toolkit for visualizing biomedical data sets
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and South East Asia
Morphology-Based Data Elimination from Medical Image Data
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A distributed database on the Internet of 3D models of human pathological organs
CBMS '97 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS '97)
A wavelet-based multiresolution edge detection and tracking
Image and Vision Computing
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The risk and duration of a surgical intervention can be greatly reduced with the successful generation of a model of the human body that allows surgery to be simulated realistically. Computerized anatomy representations described so far do not meet this requirement. The authors describe a true space-filling "virtual body" model that overcomes the drawbacks of earlier systems. The key idea underlying the new approach is to combine in a single framework a detailed spatial model enabling realistic visualization with a symbolic model of human anatomy. The spatial model is derived from a living person with computerized and magnetic resonance tomography. The symbolic model--implemented with the technique of semantic networks--contains standard textbook knowledge. The resulting virtual-body model allows the computer user to act like a virtual anatomist, radiologist, or surgeon.