Removal of abdominal wall for 3D visualization and segmentation of organs in CT volume

3D visualization and segmentation of organs in abdominal volume images are important in medical image processing for applications such as diagnosis, treatment and surgical planning. However, the abdominal wall leads to difficulties in both visualization and segmentation. These difficulties can be el...

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Published in2009 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) pp. 3377 - 3380
Main Authors Feng Ding, Wee Kheng Leow, Venkatesh, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2009
Subjects
3D deformable model
Abdomen
abdominal wall
Biomedical image processing
Bones
Data mining
Image segmentation
medical image segmentation
Medical treatment
Muscles
Ribs
Surgery
Visualization
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Summary:3D visualization and segmentation of organs in abdominal volume images are important in medical image processing for applications such as diagnosis, treatment and surgical planning. However, the abdominal wall leads to difficulties in both visualization and segmentation. These difficulties can be eliminated by removing the abdominal wall. This paper presents an algorithm that removes abdominal wall by registering a 3D flipping-free deformable model to the inner boundary of the wall. To our best knowledge, it is the first work in removing the abdominal wall for the purpose of 3D visualization and segmentation of the organs.
ISBN:9781424456536
1424456533
ISSN:1522-4880
2381-8549
DOI:10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413879