Staircase-Aware Smoothing of Medical Surface Meshes

dc.contributor.authorMoench, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorAdler, Simonen_US
dc.contributor.authorPreim, Bernharden_US
dc.contributor.editorDirk Bartz and Charl Botha and Joachim Hornegger and Raghu Machiraju and Alexander Wiebel and Bernhard Preimen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-29T17:09:03Z
dc.date.available2014-01-29T17:09:03Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThe evaluation of spatial relationships between anatomic structures is a major task in surgical planning. Surface models generated from medical image data (intensity, binary) are often used for visualization and 3D measurement of extents and distances between neighboring structures. In applications for intervention or radiation treatment planning, the surface models should exhibit a natural look (referring to smoothness of the surface), but also be accurate. Smoothing algorithms allow to reduce artifacts from mesh generation, but often degrade accuracy. In particular, relevant features may be removed and distances between adjacent structures get changed. Thus, we present a modification to common mesh smoothing algorithms, which allows to focus the smoothing effect directly to previously identified staircase artifacts. This allows to preserve non-artifact features. The approach has been applied to various data to demonstrate the suitability for different anatomical shapes. The results are compared to the ones of standard uniform mesh smoothing algorithms and are evaluated regarding smoothness and accuracy with respect to the application within surgical planning.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationEurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicineen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905674-28-6en_US
dc.identifier.issn2070-5786en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/VCBM/VCBM10/083-090en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling Curve, surface, solid, and object representationsen_US
dc.titleStaircase-Aware Smoothing of Medical Surface Meshesen_US
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