Interactive volume cutting of medical data

  • Authors:
  • Kai Xie;Gang Sun;Jie Yang;Y. M. Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, 410082 Changsha, China;Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 200240 Shanghai, China;Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 200240 Shanghai, China;CREATIS - CNRS Research Unit 5515 and INSERM Unit 630, 69621 Villeurbanne, France

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Volume data cutting plays a crucial part in medical image probing, computer assisted diagnosis, virtual surgery, etc. Based on hardware-accelerated texture-based volume rendering algorithm, the paper proposes a method for volume cutting. With Boolean operations, the method is extended to multi-object clipping and can meet the needs of more complicated clipping applications. Due to hardware acceleration, proposed algorithms achieve interactive display rate and can be used in volume cutting applications such as surgery simulation and so on.