• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.705-716
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• 2002

This paper proposes a method which visualizes MRI head data in 3 dimensions with direct volume rendering. Though surface rendering is usually used for MRI data visualization, it has some limits of displaying little speckles because it loses the information of the speckles in the surfaces while acquiring the information. Direct volume rendering has ability of displaying little speckles, but it doesn't treat MRI data because of the data features of MRI. In this paper, we try to visualize MRI head data in 3 dimensions as follows. First, we separate the brain region from the head region of MRI head data, next increase the pixel level of the brain region, then combine the brain region with the increased pixel level and the head region without brain region, last visualizes the combined MRI head data with direct volume rendering. We segment the brain region from head region based on histogram threshold, morphology operations and snakes algorithm. The proposed segmentation method shows 91~95% similarity with a hand segmentation. The method rather clearly visualizes the organs of the head in 3 dimensions.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.6-12
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• 2004

웹은 플랫폼에 의존하지 않고 모든 사람들이 공통으로 이용할 수 있는 인터페이스를 제공하기 때문에 웹브라우저상에 3차원 의료 데이터를 가시화하여 표현한다면 원격 진단, 의료 교육 등에 이용될 수 있다. 이 논문은 3차원 의료정보를 3차원 의료 볼륨 데이터, 3차원 의료 영상, 볼륨 렌더링 응용의 3 종류로 구분하여 이들을 XML로 표현하는 방법 및 텍스처 맵핑 기반의 디렉트볼륨렌더링(Direct Volume Rendering)을 SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics)으로 표현하여 SVG 뷰어 상에 표시하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법의 실행 결과는 웹 브라우저 상에서 의료데이터의 분석이 가능하게 하고, 또한 볼륨렌더링 응용프로그램을 SVG로 표현, 결과 이미지를 SVG 뷰어로의 표시가 가능하다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.646-661
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• 2003

It is not easy that we visualize the large volume data stored in the every client computers of the web environment. One solution is as follows. First we compress volume data, second store that in the database server, third transfer that to client computer, fourth visualize that with direct-volume-rendering in the client computer. In this case, we usually use wavelet transform for compressing large data. This paper reports the experiments for acquiring the wavelet bases and the compression ratios fit for the above processing paradigm. In this experiments, we compress the volume data Engine, CThead, Bentum into 50%, 10%, 5%, 1%, 0.1%, 0.03% of the total data respectively using Harr, Daubechies4, Daubechies12 and Daubechies20 wavelets, then visualize that with direct-volume-rendering, afterwards evaluate the images with eyes and image comparison metrics. When compression ratio being low the performance of Harr wavelet is better than the performance of the other wavelets, when compression ratio being high the performance of Daubechies4 and Daubechies12 is better than the performance of the other wavelets. When measuring with eyes the good compression ratio is about 1% of all the data, when measuring with image comparison metrics, the good compression ratio is about 5-10% of all the data.