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Multimodal 3-D reconstruction of human anatomical structures using surlens visualization system

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In the medical diagnosis and treatment planning, radiologists and surgeons rely heavily on the slices produced by medical imaging devices. Unfortunately, these image scanners could only present the 3-D human anatomical structure in 2-D. Traditionally, this requires medical professional concerned to study and analyze the 2-D images based on their expert experience. This is tedious, time consuming and prone to error; expecially when certain features are occluding the desired region of interest. Reconstruction procedures was earlier proposed to handle such situation. However, 3-D reconstruction system requires high performance computation and longer processing time. Integrating efficient reconstruction system into clinical procedures involves high resulting cost. Previously, brain’s blood vessels reconstruction with MRA was achieved using SurLens Visualization System. However, adapting such system to other image modalities, applicable to the entire human anatomical structures, would be a meaningful contribution towards achieving a resourceful system for medical diagnosis and disease therapy. This paper attempts to adapt SurLens to possible visualisation of abnormalities in human anatomical structures using CT and MR images. The study was evaluated with brain MR images from the department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, United States and CT abdominal pelvic, from the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. The MR images contain around 109 datasets each of T1-FLASH, T2-Weighted, DTI and T1-MPRAGE. Significantly, visualization of human anatomical structure was achieved without prior segmentation. SurLens was adapted to visualize and display abnormalities, such as an indication of walderstrom’s macroglobulinemia, stroke and penetrating brain injury in the human brain using Magentic Resonance (MR) images. Moreover, possible abnormalities in abdominal pelvic was also visualized using Computed Tomography (CT) slices. The study shows SurLens’ functionality as a 3-D Multimodal Visualization System.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

    A. M. Adeshina & R. Hashim

  2. Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    N. E. A. Khalid & S. Z. Z. Abidin

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Adeshina, A.M., Hashim, R., Khalid, N.E.A. et al. Multimodal 3-D reconstruction of human anatomical structures using surlens visualization system. Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci 5, 23–36 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-013-0155-z

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