Annual review of computer science: vol. 3, 1988
Mathematical elements for computer graphics (2nd ed.)
Mathematical elements for computer graphics (2nd ed.)
Object oriented design with applications
Object oriented design with applications
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OSF/Motif style guide: revision 1.0
Designing object-oriented software
Designing object-oriented software
Interactive image segmentation for radiation treatment planning
IBM Systems Journal
Object-oriented development: the fusion method
Object-oriented development: the fusion method
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Research Frontiers in Object Technology
Information Systems Frontiers
Vision-based user interfaces for health applications: a survey
ISVC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in Visual Computing - Volume Part I
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As part of a European Commission-funded research project on medical image analysis, we have developed a system aimed at solving a real clinical problem: the outlining of the target volume and organs at risk for three-dimensional conformal radiation treatment planning. The clinical requirement is to make this process less tedious and time-consuming. We show how object-oriented design techniques can be used to good effect in a collaborative project such as this, so that image segmentation and other algorithms from a number of different partners in the consortium can be integrated into one system, for comparative evaluation by the clinical partners. We describe in some detail two of these algorithms, one a straightforward region and volume grower, in which particular attention has been paid to adapting the user interface to suit clinical needs, and the other an interactive tool using b-spline surface patches for direct three-dimensional segmentation. We report on the clinical feedback we have received, which indicates that the most technically advanced algorithms are not necessarily the most useful from a clinician's point of view.