Voxel tube algorithm for object oriented virtual navigation in medical volumes

Author

Prakash, E.C.

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

252

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the virtual navigation in medical volumes. The core component of this architecture is the voxel chain that operates directly on voxels. A data structure, voxel navigation chain (VNC) tree, represents the navigation path in a volume of features. The feature or object is represented as a voxel tube chain (VTC) that connects many 2D voxel contour chains (VCC). Collectively the hierarchy of the three chains helps efficient navigation in volume data sets. We show the overall architecture of the system and preliminary results from the system. Space requirements and computational complexity for the voxel chain architecture are described for particular implementations

Keywords

computerised navigation; data visualisation; feature extraction; medical computing; object-oriented methods; surgery; tree data structures; 2D voxel contour chains; VCC; VNC tree; VTC; computational complexity; data structure; medical volumes; navigation path; object oriented virtual navigation; space requirements; voxel chain architecture; voxel navigation chain tree; voxel tube algorithm; voxel tube chain; Animation; Colon; Computational complexity; Computer architecture; Data mining; Humans; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Robots; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2000. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6355-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2000.893581

Filename

893581