Illustrated Ultrasound for Multimodal Data Interpretation of Liver Examinations

Viola, Ivan; Nylund, Kim; Øye, Ola Kristoffer; Ulvang, Dag Magne; Gilja, Odd Helge; Hauser, Helwig

Illustrated Ultrasound for Multimodal Data Interpretation of Liver Examinations

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Date

2008

Authors

Viola, Ivan
Nylund, Kim
Øye, Ola Kristoffer
Ulvang, Dag Magne
Gilja, Odd Helge
Hauser, Helwig

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Traditional visualization of real-time 2D ultrasound data is difficult to interpret, even for experienced medical personnel. To make the interpretation during the education phase easier, we enhance the visualization during liver examinations with an abstracted depiction of relevant anatomical structures, here denoted as illustrated ultrasound. The specifics of enhancing structures are available through an interactively co-registered computed tomography, which has been enhanced by semantic information. To assist the orientation in the liver, we partition the liver into Couinaud segments. They are defined in a rapid segmentation process based on linked 2D slice views and 3D exploded views. The semantics are interactively related from the co-registered modality to the real-time ultrasound via co-registration. During the illustrated ultrasound examination training we provide visual enhancements that depict which liver segments are intersected by the ultrasound slice.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VCBM/VCBM08/125-133
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine
},
editor = {Charl Botha and Gordon Kindlmann and Wiro Niessen and Bernhard Preim
},
title = {{Illustrated Ultrasound for Multimodal Data Interpretation of Liver Examinations
}},
author = {Viola, Ivan and 
Nylund, Kim and 
Øye, Ola Kristoffer and 
Ulvang, Dag Magne and 
Gilja, Odd Helge and 
Hauser, Helwig
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {2070-5786
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-13-2
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VCBM/VCBM08/125-133
}
}