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

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1455

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.898017

Filename

898017