The Future and Function of Medical Visualization Systems:Technical Challenges from the Visible Human Project

Outline

What is it?

Early Volume Visualization

Imaging in Medicine

The Visualization R&D Cycle

3D Visualization in Radiology

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X-ray Computed Tomography (CT)

CT

CT Properties

MRI

MRI

MRI

Hydrogen Nuclei - Natural State

Hydrogen Nuclei - with B0 applied

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The Visible Human Project Data

VHP Data Acquisition

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Research Program in Imaging

Goals

Atlas-Guided Segmentation

Multiscale Image Statistics

Convolution & Gaussian Scale

Assertion

A 1-D Test Image

Local Means

Scale-space Variance

Scale-space mI(3)

Scale-space mI(4)

Central Moments in 2D

Scaled Directional Covariances

2D Directional Covariances

Singular Value Decomposition

Application: Statistical Boundary Analysis

Multimodal Moments

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Dynamic Visualization

Immersive Display

Haptic Rendering

Visible Human ProjectImage Processing Tools

VHP: From Data to Knowledge

Acknowledgements

Image Processing Tools

Uses

Users

Algorithms

Validation

Validation

Meeting Schedule

Application: Surgical Planning

Application: Image Guidance

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