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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2010.15.6.723

3D Stereoscopic Image Generation of a 2D Medical Image  

Kim, Man-Bae (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Jang, Seong-Eun (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Lee, Woo-Keun (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Choi, Chang-Yeol (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.15, no.6, 2010 , pp. 723-730 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, diverse 3D image processing technologies have been applied in industries. Among them, stereoscopic conversion is a technology to generate a stereoscopic image from a conventional 2D image. The technology can be applied to movie and broadcasting contents and the viewer can watch 3D stereoscopic contents. Further the stereoscopic conversion is required to be applied to other fields. Following such trend, the aim of this paper is to apply the stereoscopic conversion to medical fields. The medical images can deliver more detailed 3D information with a stereoscopic image compared with a 2D plane image. This paper presents a novel methodology for converting a 2D medical image into a 3D stereoscopic image. For this, mean shift segmentation, edge detection, intensity analysis, etc are utilized to generate a final depth map. From an image and the depth map, left and right images are constructed. In the experiment, the proposed method is performed on a medical image such as CT (Computed Tomograpy). The stereoscopic image displayed on a 3D monitor shows a satisfactory performance.
Keywords
CT; 3D; stereoscopic conversion; depth map;
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