Enhancing Slice-based Visualizations of Medical Volume Data
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Date
2006
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Slice-based visualizations of CT and MRI data are frequently used for diagnosis, intervention planning and intraoperative navigation since they allow a precise analysis and localization. We present new techniques to enhance the visualization of cross sectional medical image data. Our work is focussed on intervention planning and intraoperative navigation. We address the following problems of slice-based visualization in these areas: the lack of a graphical overview on the positions of anatomic structures, the localization of a target structure and the display of safety zones around pathologic structures. To improve the overview, we introduce LIFTCHARTs, attached as vertical bars to a slice-based visualization. For localizing target structures, we introduce halos. These techniques restrict the occlusion of the original data to a minimum and avoid any modification of the original data. To demonstrate the usability of these visualization techniques, we show two application scenarios in which the techniques come into operation.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/123-130,
booktitle = {EUROVIS - Eurographics /IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization},
editor = {Beatriz Sousa Santos and Thomas Ertl and Ken Joy},
title = {{Enhancing Slice-based Visualizations of Medical Volume Data}},
author = {Tietjen, Christian and Meyer, Björn and Schlechtweg, Stefan and Preim, Bernhard and Hertel, Ilka and Strauß, Gero},
year = {2006},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-5296},
ISBN = {3-905673-31-2},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/123-130}
}