Virtual Colonoscopy is an innovative method to discover colon neoplasias created in order to alleviate patients aches generated by the standard colonoscopy. For the same reason, we have realized an automatic process finalized to find polyps into the lumen through the extraction of colon centerline and the calculation of polyps distance from anus. This paper contains the description of what is implemented. In particular, the developed algorithms build up following steps: colon lumen segmentation starting from a dataset of axial CT slices, 3D rendering, centerline extraction and evaluation of polyps distance from anus
Relevant Measurements for Polyps in 3D Virtual Colonoscopy / Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio; Notarnicola, M.; Cortellino, M.; Scarpa, A.; Taurino, D.; Mastronardi, Giuseppe. - 5754 LNCS:(2009), pp. 984-993. (Intervento presentato al convegno 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2009 tenutosi a Ulsan; South Korea nel September 16-19, 2009) [10.1007/978-3-642-04070-2_104].
Relevant Measurements for Polyps in 3D Virtual Colonoscopy
BEVILACQUA, Vitoantonio;MASTRONARDI, Giuseppe
2009-01-01
Abstract
Virtual Colonoscopy is an innovative method to discover colon neoplasias created in order to alleviate patients aches generated by the standard colonoscopy. For the same reason, we have realized an automatic process finalized to find polyps into the lumen through the extraction of colon centerline and the calculation of polyps distance from anus. This paper contains the description of what is implemented. In particular, the developed algorithms build up following steps: colon lumen segmentation starting from a dataset of axial CT slices, 3D rendering, centerline extraction and evaluation of polyps distance from anusI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
