A system for osteosarcoma segmentation and 3-D reconstruction

Author

Sun, Hao ; Zhao, Yongqiang ; Hong, Feng ; Li, Minglu ; Mei, Jiong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China

Volume

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

950

Abstract

This paper illustrates a novel system for osteosarcoma segmentation and 3D reconstruction which is useful for doctors to make an optimal treatment plan. A reasonable architecture is designed by integrating different functional modules. Segmentation and 3D reconstruction are critical modules among them. This system employs an information fusion procedure in segmentation and the marching cubes algorithm in 3D reconstruction. The system provides doctors with the results of a segmented tumor and a 3D visualization of it. A friendly interactive interface is provided for doctors, making it easy for them to use the system. The realization of the system is supported by three open-source software toolkits: VTK, ITK, FLTK which are cross-platform and freely available.

Keywords

data visualisation; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; public domain software; sensor fusion; tumours; user interfaces; 3D reconstruction; 3D visualization; FLTK; ITK; VTK; information fusion; interactive interface; marching cubes algorithm; open-source software toolkits; optimal treatment plan; osteosarcoma segmentation; tumor; Biomedical imaging; DICOM; Hospitals; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neoplasms; Open source software; Three dimensional displays; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2004. ICCCAS 2004. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2004.1346337

Filename

1346337