Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference (대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집)

The Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
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Visualization of Medical Images Using Visualization Toolkit

VTK를 이용한 의료영상의 가시화

  • Choi, H.G. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Tack, G.R. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Konkuk University)
  • 최형근 (건국대학교 의과대학 의공학과) ;
  • 탁계래 (건국대학교 의과대학 의공학과)
  • Published : 1998.11.20
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Abstract

In this paper, visualization of Visible Human data offered by NLM(National Library of Medicine) is performed using $VTK^{TM}$. Computed Tomography Data set(axial, $587\times341\times256$, and the distance between slices 1mm) is used throughout the study. Before the actual visualization routine, 8 bit-reader class of VTK is developed to transform CT data to VTK dataset. After that, the visualization procedures are done to display 3D image on PC. VTK is freeware, not a commercial software. The results of VTK show relatively good image quality and slower processing time compared with the commercial softwares like IAP, IDL, AVS. Thus if processing time is not the critical factor, VTK is worthy to be used in visualization of the medical images.

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