Conference proceeding
Virtual bronchoscopic assessment of major airway obstructions
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.3660(1), pp.313-320
Medical Imaging 1999: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images
05/20/1999
DOI: 10.1117/12.349601
Abstract
We demonstrate the added utility of virtual-bronchoscopic techniques for assessing major airway obstructions. Shaded- surface displays of the major airways are combined with tube- geometry analysis of the airway lumen to assist in the study of 57 subjects. In tandem with this study we also propose a method for automatically finding the centerlines (central axes) of the major airways. The method runs quickly on a typical anisotropically sampled 16-bit high-resolution CT image and has potential for providing useful guidance information for virtual bronchoscopy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Virtual bronchoscopic assessment of major airway obstructions
- Creators
- Geoffrey McLennan - Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine (USA)Eric A Hoffman - Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine (USA)Roderick D Swift - Pennsylvania State UniversityWilliam E Higgins - Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine and The Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.3660(1), pp.313-320
- Conference
- Medical Imaging 1999: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.349601
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/20/1999
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984320080502771
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