Title :
GPU based multi-histogram volume navigation for virtual bronchoscopy
Author :
Ruida Cheng ; Sheng Xu ; Bokinsky, Alexandra ; McCreedy, Evan ; Gandler, William ; Wood, Bradford J. ; McAuliffe, Matthew J.
Author_Institution :
Image Sci. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract :
An interactive navigation system for virtual bronchoscopy is presented, which is based solely on GPU based high performance multi-histogram volume rendering.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; graphics processing units; medical image processing; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; GPU based multihistogram volume navigation; high performance multihistogram volume rendering; interactive navigation system; virtual bronchoscopy; Bronchoscopy; Games; Geometry; Graphics processing units; Navigation; Rendering (computer graphics); Three-dimensional displays;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944330
