TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual computing for medical diagnosis and treatment
AU - Klein, Jan
AU - Friman, O.
AU - Hadwiger, M.
AU - Preim, B.
AU - Ritter, F.
AU - Vilanova, A.
AU - Zachmann, G.
AU - Bartz, D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Diagnostic algorithms and efficient visualization techniques are of major importance for preoperative decisions,intra-operative imaging and image-guided surgery.Complex diagnostic decisions arecharacterized by a high information flow and fast decisions, requiring efficient and intuitive presentation ofcomplex medical data and precision in the visualization. For intra-operative medical treatment, the pre-operative visualization results of the diagnostic systems have to be transferred to thepatient on the operation room table.Via augmented reality,additional information of the hiddenregions can be displayed virtually.This state-of-the-art report summarizes visual computing algorithmsfor medical diagnosis and treatment.After starting with direct volume rendering and tagged volumerendering as general techniques for visualizing anatomica lstructures,we go into more detai lbyfocusing on the visualization of tissue and vessel structures.Afterwards,algorithms and techniques thatare used for medical treatment in the context of image-guided surgery,intra-operative imaging andaugmented reality are discussed and reviewed.
AB - Diagnostic algorithms and efficient visualization techniques are of major importance for preoperative decisions,intra-operative imaging and image-guided surgery.Complex diagnostic decisions arecharacterized by a high information flow and fast decisions, requiring efficient and intuitive presentation ofcomplex medical data and precision in the visualization. For intra-operative medical treatment, the pre-operative visualization results of the diagnostic systems have to be transferred to thepatient on the operation room table.Via augmented reality,additional information of the hiddenregions can be displayed virtually.This state-of-the-art report summarizes visual computing algorithmsfor medical diagnosis and treatment.After starting with direct volume rendering and tagged volumerendering as general techniques for visualizing anatomica lstructures,we go into more detai lbyfocusing on the visualization of tissue and vessel structures.Afterwards,algorithms and techniques thatare used for medical treatment in the context of image-guided surgery,intra-operative imaging andaugmented reality are discussed and reviewed.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cag.2009.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cag.2009.04.006
M3 - Article
SN - 0097-8493
VL - 33
SP - 554
EP - 565
JO - Computers and Graphics
JF - Computers and Graphics
IS - 4
ER -