Overview
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Karl Heinz Höhne
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Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20, Germany
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Henry Fuchs
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Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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Stephen M. Pizer
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Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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Table of contents (28 papers)
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Visualization
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- Riccardo Pini, Elisabetta Monnini, Leonardo Masotti, Kevin L. Novins, Donald P. Greenberg, Barbara Greppi et al.
Pages 263-274
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Object Manipulation and Interaction
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Front Matter
Pages 275-275
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- Stéphane Lavallée, Philippe Cinquin
Pages 301-312
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Systems
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Front Matter
Pages 313-313
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- Farzad E. Yazdy, Jon Tyrrell, Mark Riley, Norman Winterbottom
Pages 363-375
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Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 377-377
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- Xiaoping Hu, Kim K. Tan, David N. Levin, Charles A. Pelizzari, George T. Y. Chen
Pages 379-397
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- Ludwig Adams, Joachim M. Gilsbach, Werner Krybus, Dietrich Meyer-Ebrecht, Ralph Mösges, Georg Schlöndorff
Pages 411-423
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- Elliot K. Fishman, Derek R. Ney, Donna Magid
Pages 425-440
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- Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jolesz, Guido Gerig, Tamas Sandor, Harvey E. Cline, William E. Lorensen et al.
Pages 441-454
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Back Matter
Pages 455-463
About this book
The visualization of human anatomy for diagnostic, therapeutic, and educational pur poses has long been a challenge for scientists and artists. In vivo medical imaging could not be introduced until the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad ROntgen in 1895. With the early medical imaging techniques which are still in use today, the three-dimensional reality of the human body can only be visualized in two-dimensional projections or cross-sections. Recently, biomedical engineering and computer science have begun to offer the potential of producing natural three-dimensional views of the human anatomy of living subjects. For a broad application of such technology, many scientific and engineering problems still have to be solved. In order to stimulate progress, the NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Travemiinde, West Germany, from June 25 to 29 was organized. It brought together approximately 50 experts in 3D-medical imaging from allover the world. Among the list of topics image acquisition was addressed first, since its quality decisively influences the quality of the 3D-images. For 3D-image generation - in distinction to 2D imaging - a decision has to be made as to which objects contained in the data set are to be visualized. Therefore special emphasis was laid on methods of object definition. For the final visualization of the segmented objects a large variety of visualization algorithms have been proposed in the past. The meeting assessed these techniques.