Title :
Automatic finite element mesh generation from MRI scans for breast cancer investigations
Author :
Wu, Ziji ; Sullivan, John M., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Abstract :
Reconstruction of human breast tissues from MRI or other medical imaging scans are critical for early stage breast cancer detection research. This paper describes an automatic system that takes a set of two-dimensional (2D) medical images and produces a high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) volumetric mesh suitable for finite element analysis, which is important to breast cancer detection research
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cancer; image reconstruction; mammography; medical image processing; mesh generation; MRI scans; automatic finite element mesh generation; breast cancer detection research; breast cancer investigations; high-quality three-dimensional volumetric mesh; human breast tissues reconstruction; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Breast tissue; Cancer detection; Finite element methods; Humans; Image analysis; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mesh generation;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Storrs, CT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6717-0
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.2001.924719
