Interactive electronic biopsy for 3D virtual colonscopy

Ming Wan; Frank Dachille; Kevin Kreeger; Sarang Lakare; Mie Sato; Arie E. Kaufman; Mark R. Wax; Zhengrong Liang

doi:10.1117/12.428176

21 May 2001 Interactive electronic biopsy for 3D virtual colonscopy

Ming Wan, Frank Dachille, Kevin Kreeger, Sarang Lakare, Mie Sato, Arie E. Kaufman, Mark R. Wax, Zhengrong Liang

Proceedings Volume 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428176
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We propose an interactive electronic biopsy technique for more accurate colon cancer diagnoses by using advanced volume rendering technologies. The volume rendering technique defines a transfer function to map different ranges of sample values of the original volume data to different colors and opacities, so that the interior structure of the polyps can be clearly recognized by human eyes. Specifically, we provide a user- friendly interface for physicians to modify various parameters in the transfer function, so that the physician can interactively change the transfer function to observe the interior structures inside the abnormalities. Furthermore, to speed up the volume rendering procedure, we propose an efficient space-leaping technique by observing that the virtual camera parameters are often fixed when the physician modifies the transfer function. In addition, we provide an important tool to display the original 2D CT image at the current 3D camera position, so that the physician is able to double check the interior structure of a polyp with the density variation in the corresponding CT image for confirmation. Compared with the traditional biopsy in the procedure of optical colonoscopy, our method is more flexible, noninvasive, and therefore without risk.

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Ming Wan, Frank Dachille, Kevin Kreeger, Sarang Lakare, Mie Sato, Arie E. Kaufman, Mark R. Wax, and Zhengrong Liang "Interactive electronic biopsy for 3D virtual colonscopy", Proc. SPIE 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, (21 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428176

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