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Multidimensional volume visualization for PC-based microsurgical simulation system

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Chee-Kong Chui,

Chuan-Heng AngAuthors Info & Claims

VRCAI '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH international conference on Virtual Reality continuum and its applications in industry

Pages 309 - 316

https://doi.org/10.1145/1044588.1044656

Published: 16 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Microsurgery is a highly complex surgical procedure on small body parts performed by a dedicated surgical team. An operating microscope is typically used to obtain a precise view of the soft tissues. The complexity of the microsurgical procedure makes it a suitable application of virtual/augmented reality technology for training purpose. In this paper, we present an overview of our simulator and then describe the visualization work that reconstructs the magnified view of the operating area from medical images. Our 3D linear level octree(LLO) based volume rendering algorithm, and newly proposed dynamic linear level octree (DLLO) based 4D volume rendering algorithm are integrated with a texture-based renderer to form the visualization component. In contrast to the conventional algorithms, our method achieves fast rendering speed, reduced requirement for texture bandwidth and combined surface-volume rendering for realistic and interactive PC-based medical simulations.

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Balsa Rodríguez MGobbetti EIglesias Guitián JMakhinya MMarton FPajarola RSuter S(2014)State-of-the-Art in Compressed GPU-Based Direct Volume RenderingComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1228033:6(77-100)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.12280
Karadkar UNordt MFuruta RLee CQuick C(2006)An exploration of space-time constraints on contextual information in image-based testing interfacesProceedings of the 10th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries10.1007/11863878_33(391-402)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11863878_33

Index Terms

Multidimensional volume visualization for PC-based microsurgical simulation system
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics

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VRCAI '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH international conference on Virtual Reality continuum and its applications in industry

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ISBN:1581138849

DOI:10.1145/1044588

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Balsa Rodríguez MGobbetti EIglesias Guitián JMakhinya MMarton FPajarola RSuter S(2014)State-of-the-Art in Compressed GPU-Based Direct Volume RenderingComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1228033:6(77-100)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.12280
Karadkar UNordt MFuruta RLee CQuick C(2006)An exploration of space-time constraints on contextual information in image-based testing interfacesProceedings of the 10th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries10.1007/11863878_33(391-402)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11863878_33

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