Title :
High-speed interactive multimodality image fusion tool-kit
Author :
Yan, Yulong ; Boyer, Arthur L. ; Montgomery, Kevin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiat. Oncology, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., CA, USA
Abstract :
An intuitive 3D image and graphics tool-kit was developed to study high-speed interactive image fusion. Although automated means have been sought by others to determine the affine transformation required to fuse one image data set with another, a method that makes use of human judgement was investigated to facilitate the choice of the 12 independent variables. The approach is suitable for fusing any combination of CT, MR, PET and SPECT studies
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; computerised tomography; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; image reconstruction; image segmentation; interactive systems; matrix multiplication; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; radiation therapy; rendering (computer graphics); sensor fusion; single photon emission computed tomography; surface fitting; 3D surface models; CT; MRI; PET; SPECT; affine transformation; contour rendering; effective GUI; graphics toolkit; high-speed interactive image fusion; human judgement use; intuitive 3D image toolkit; multimodality image fusion toolkit; oncology imaging; reconstructed image slices; Computed tomography; Fuses; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Image fusion; Lesions; Positron emission tomography; Rendering (computer graphics); Surface fitting; Surface reconstruction;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.898017
