Development of the MI-Viewer KIT for medical image viewer

Recently, the performance of CT (Computed Tomography) scanner with high resolution is rapidly introduced to medical field for detecting the abnormalities. This improvement can make the diagnosis more accurately. To diagnosis the human body, radiologist compares the anatomical and functional image by use of image viewer system in the medical field. The CT scanner is able to produce huge numbers of CT images at once on the visual screening. Therefore, it takes time for to diagnose a patient by using the CT images directly. To overcome this problem, the CAD (computer aided diagnosis) system is developed and admitted effectively as a second opinion for physicians. However, this CAD system is too expensive for introducing to a small hospital user and also needs a computer with high specification for 3-D displaying of CT image sets. To avoid this problem, we develop a new user-friendly CAD system. Our proposed CAD system can be implemented in a personal computer. In this paper, we introduce the CAD system, such as, segmentation by using a Snakes and 3-D display by using a volume rendering technique. The segmentation process enables us to segment the image by connecting the image contour using initial point setting semi-automatically. The 3-D image which is obtained by proposed technique can be supported to realize internal structure of the human body. By using our proposed system, radiologist can be segment multi organs and analyzing the internal human structures.