Title :
3D reconstruction and morphological quantization of a human embryo heart for the validation of a virtual model
Author :
Dillenseger, J.-L. ; Schleich, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. Traitement du Signal et de l´´Image, Rennes I Univ., France
Abstract :
Presents the methodology used for the reconstruction of a human 13 weeks of age (WOA) embryo heart. This reconstructed heart is visualized and some quantitative measurements are performed in order to allow the validation of a virtual computer generated heart model.
Keywords :
biomedical education; cardiology; data visualisation; image reconstruction; image registration; image segmentation; mathematical morphology; medical image processing; obstetrics; physiological models; teaching; 0.25 y; 3D reconstruction; cardiac embryology; heart development teaching; human embryo heart; image processing; morphological quantization; quantitative measurements; reconstructed heart visualization; virtual computer generated heart model; virtual model; Education; Embryo; Heart; Humans; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Labeling; Performance evaluation; Quantization; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7211-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017308
