3D visualization techniques and its usefulness of eyeground images data sets generated by Optical Coherence Tomography

Tomogram of eyeground images by optical coherence tomography (OCT) are a set of the echo information on a minute portion by the scanning beam. These images contain many random noises and gap between images. Images of OCT are strongly influenced of the motion-induced artifacts during the image acquisition, pulsation by the living body organization. Therefore, it is difficult to form 3D volume images. In this research, a noise removal of 2D images and position alignment processing were performed as a pretreatment of 3D visualization. 3D images contribute to medical treatment of eyeground disease and informed consent. We utilized a texture-based volume rendering technique, and evaluated the usefulness of the 3D eyeground model in the medical treatment of eyeground disease