Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Mastering interactive virtual Bronchioscopy on a Low—end PC
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
Automated Labeling of Bronchial Branches in Virtual Bronchoscopy System
MICCAI '98 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Automatic Centerline Extraction for 3D Virtual Bronchoscopy
MICCAI '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Interactive and multi-modal visualization for neuroendoscopic interventions
EGVISSYM'01 Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Visualization in Medicine: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Visualization in Medicine: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Using multimedia and Web3D to enhance anatomy teaching
Computers & Education
Computational Tasks in Bronchoscope Navigation During Computer-Assisted Transbronchial Biopsy
ICCS '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Science, Part III
Computational tasks in computer-assisted transbronchial biopsy
Future Generation Computer Systems
Interactive segmentation of 3D images using a region adjacency graph representation
ICIAR'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Image analysis and recognition - Volume Part I
Scaffolding-based segmentation of coronary vascular structures
VG'05 Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Volume Graphics
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Segmentation of the tracheo-bronchial tree of the lungs is notoriously difficult. This is due to the fact that the small size of some of the anatomical structures are subject to partial volume effects. Furthermore, the limited intensity contrast between the participating materials (air, blood, and tissue) increases the segmentation difficulties. In this paper, we propose a hybrid segmentation method which is based on a pipeline of three segmentation stages to extract the lower airways down to the seventh generation of the bronchi. User interaction is limited to the specification of a seed point inside the easily detectable trachea at the upper end of the lower airways. Similarly, the complementary vascular tree of the lungs can be segmented. Furthermore, we modified our virtual endoscopy system to visualize the vascular and airway system of the lungs along with other features, such as lung tumors.