Holographic Video Display of Time-Series Volumetric Medical Data

Authors:
Wendy Plesniak;Michael Halle;Steven D. Pieper;William Wells III;Marianna Jakab;Dominik S. Meier;Stephen A. Benton;Charles R. G. Guttmann;Ron Kikinis
Affiliations:
Surgical Planning Laboratory/ Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair/ The MIT Media Laboratory;Surgical Planning Laboratory/ The MIT Media Laboratory;Isomics, Inc.;Surgical Planning Laboratory/ Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair;Surgical Planning Laboratory;Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital;The MIT Media Laboratory;Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital;Surgical Planning Laboratory
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 (VIS'03)
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We describe an animated electro-holographic visualization of brain lesions due to the progression of multiple sclerosis. A research case study is used which documents the expression of visible brain lesions in a series of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumes collected over the interval of one year. Some of the salient information resident within this data is described, and the motivation for using a dynamic spatial display to explore its spatial and temporal characteristics is stated. We provide a brief overview of spatial displays in medical imaging applications, and then describe our experimental visualization pipeline, from the processing of MRI datasets, through model construction, computer graphic rendering, and hologram encoding. The utility, strengths and shortcomings of the electro-holographic visualization are described and future improvements are suggested.