Name
Abstract | ||
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Dural arteriovenous fistulae are the cause of various somatic diseases. For their analysis DSA is used in medical practice. However, the injection of contrast dye into the vertebral segmental arteries is a time-consuming and highly dicult procedure. Aiming at a reduction of the number of injections required for the detection and exact local- ization of the pathology, we introduce a new approach which provides meaningful visualization of MR-CISS volumes. Due to the limited spa- tial resolution of the image data an explicit segmentation of the small vascular structures is extremely dicult. Therefore, we propose a fast sequence of filtering operations and volume growing in order to separate the areas of background, spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid. Consecu- tively, we suggest implicit segmentation within these subvolumes. This is achieved by interactively adjusting transfer functions of pre-defined color lookup tables with a few manipulation operations. Thereby, the tiny target vessels contained within the area of cerebrospinal fluid are clearly delineated. Overall, the presented non-invasive approach ensures an optimal spatial understanding of vessel structures in relation to the surrounding anatomy and contributes significantly to reduce the number of injections during DSA examinations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1999 | 10.1007/10704282_5 | MICCAI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
surgery planning,mr-ciss data,analysis of dural ar- teriovenous fistulae,mr-ciss,direct volume rendering,dural arteriovenous fistulae,interactive direct volume,lookup table,transfer function | Spinal cord,Computer vision,Lookup table,Volume rendering,Visualization,Segmentation,Computer science,Surgery planning,Filter (signal processing),Artificial intelligence,Image resolution | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
1679 | 0302-9743 | 3-540-66503-X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.78 | 8 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christof Rezk-Salama | 1 | 214 | 21.97 |
| Peter Hastreiter | 2 | 310 | 44.28 |
| K. Eberhardt | 3 | 62 | 7.56 |
| Bernd Tomandl | 4 | 45 | 8.11 |
| Thomas Ertl | 5 | 4417 | 401.52 |