Integrating Region Growing and Edge Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Boundary Finding with Parametrically Deformable Models
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Accelerated volume rendering and tomographic reconstruction using texture mapping hardware
VVS '94 Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on Volume visualization
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Two-handed interactive stereoscopic visualization
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
Volume rendering of abdominal aortic aneurysms
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
Interactive lens visualization techniques
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Slice-adaptive histogram for improvement of anatomical structure extraction in volume data
Pattern Recognition Letters
Semi-automatic feature delineation in medical images
APVis '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australasian symposium on Information Visualisation - Volume 35
3D visualisation of tumours and blood vessels in human liver
VIP '02 Selected papers from the 2002 Pan-Sydney workshop on Visualisation - Volume 22
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Physics-based interactive volume manipulation for sharing surgical process
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on new and emerging technologies in bioinformatics and bioengineering
CT hepatic venography: 3D vascular segmentation for preoperative evaluation
MICCAI'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part II
Venous tree separation in the liver: graph partitioning using a non-ising model
IPMI'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Information processing in medical imaging
Performance divergence with data discrepancy: a review
Artificial Intelligence Review
Direct volume manipulation for visualizing intraoperative liver resection process
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
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Advances in 3D computerized visualization of the human body are transforming liver cancer treatment. The authors describe their technique for using volume rendering of computerized tomography (CT) imaging data to generate a 3D map of the liver. This map gives surgeons vital information about liver tumor location relative to key blood vessels and other important body structures. This is particularly important for minimally invasive surgery, which permits less complete visualization than a standard surgical incision. The authors' technique could also help doctors determine which cases are operable without having to perform exploratory surgery.The key, the authors explain, is recent computer science and image-processing developments that obtain more information from data sets than just the visual display of a tumor. Advances in computer graphics hardware technology allow creation of volume-rendered images at near real-time speeds, using commercially available computer systems. The authors explain the importance of segmentation and volume rendering technologies in this effort. In addition, they discuss research and future directions in such areas as interactive tools, image-guided surgery, and virtual reality.