High-performance medical visualization tools to aid in kidney assessment

Ning Tang; Timothy S. Newman

doi:10.1117/12.273943

7 May 1997 High-performance medical visualization tools to aid in kidney assessment

Ning Tang, Timothy S. Newman

Proceedings Volume 3031, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273943
Event: Medical Imaging 1997, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a suite of high performance medical visualization tools implemented using a networked computing configuration. The tools are designed to supply interactive and near-real-time visualization capability for volumetric data to assist in diagnosis, monitoring, and surgical planning for kidney disorders, especially the Von Hippel Lindau Syndrome. The networked configuration combines the computing power of a vector-parallel supercomputer with the interactive graphics capability of a high-end workstation. In this paper, our focus is on the image rendering and interactive data exploration functional units of the system. One computationally intensive feature extraction and image rendering function - including the marching cubes, volume ray casting, and surface ray tracing - have been vectorized and are discussed. We also present interactive exploration tools for viewing arbitrary orthogonal sets of planes and a probing tool for 3D measurements. These latter tools were implemented on the workstation.

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Ning Tang and Timothy S. Newman "High-performance medical visualization tools to aid in kidney assessment", Proc. SPIE 3031, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display, (7 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273943

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