Case study: visualization of 3D ultrasonic data

Authors:
Georgios Sakas;Lars-Arne Schreyer;Marcus Grimm
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
Venue:
VIS '94 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94
Year:
1994

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Abstract

3D Ultrasound is one of the most interesting non-invasive, non-radiative tomographic techniques. Rendering 3D modells from such data is not straight-forward due to the noisy, fuzzy nature of ultrasound imaging containing a lot of artefacts. In this paper we first apply speckle, median and gaussian prefiltering to improve the image quality. Using several semi-automatic segmentation tools we isolate interesting features within a few minutes. Our improved surface-extraction procedure enables volume rendering of high quality within a few seconds on a normal work-station, thus making the complete system suitable for routine clinical applications.