A fast accurate 3D surface reconstruction method of medical image based on modularization

Author

Lee, Bin ; Tian, Lian-Fang ; Ping, Chen ; Mo, Hong-Qiang ; Mao, Zong-yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Sci. & Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

Volume

8

fYear

2005

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

4942

Abstract

A 3D surface reconstruction method of medical images based on modularization is proposed in this paper. First, an appropriate segmentation method is applied to its slices using features of the original medical image, and the segmentation result is used as the input of "marching cubes" to generate accurate isosurfaces. Then, a voxel-tracing algorithm is developed based on the relativity of triangles of the isosurfaces. Finally, the vertexes are merged according to some constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that the method was efficient and effective.

Keywords

image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3D surface reconstruction; image segmentation; marching cubes; medical image; vertex merging; voxel-tracing algorithm; Biomedical imaging; Educational institutions; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Isosurfaces; Medical diagnostic imaging; Reconstruction algorithms; Rendering (computer graphics); Surface morphology; Surface reconstruction; 3D reconstruction; Marching Cubes; segmentation; vertex merging; voxel tracing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9091-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2005.1527813

Filename

1527813