Virtualized Endoscope System : An Application of Virtual Reality Technology to Diagnostic Aid (Special Issue on Multimedia Computing and Communications)

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In this paper we propose a new medical image processing system called "Virtualized Endoscope System (VES)", which can examine the inside of a virtualized human body. The virtualized human body is a 3-D digital image which is taken by such as X-ray CT scanner or MRI scanner. VES consists of three modules; (1) imaging, (2) segmentation and reconstruction and (3) interactive operation. The interactive operation module has following thee major functions; (a)display of, (b) measurement from, and (c) manipulation to the virtualized human body. The user of the system Can observe freely both the inside and the outside of a target organ from any point and any direction freely, and can perform necessary measurement interactively concerning angle and length at any time during observation. VES enables to observe repeatedly an area where the real endoscope can not enter without pain from any direction which the real endoscope can not. We applied this system to real 3-D X-ray CT images and obtained good result.
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1996-06-25