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G Abdoulaev,
S Cadeddu,
G Delussu,
M Donizelli,
L Formaggia,
A Giachetti,
E Gobbetti,
A Leone,
C Manzi, P Pili,
A Scheinine,
M Tuveri,
A Varone,
A Veneziani,
G Zanetti,
A Zorcolo
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ABSTRACT: The aim of the virtual vascular project (ViVa) is to develop tools for the modern hemodynamicist and cardiovascular surgeon to study and interpret the constantly increasing amount of information being produced by noninvasive imaging equipment. In particular, we are developing a system able to process and visualize three-dimensional (3-D) medical data, reconstruct the geometry of arteries of specific patients, and simulate blood flow in them. The initial applications of the system will be for clinical research and training purposes. In a later stage, we will explore the application of the system to surgical planning. ViVa is based on an integrated set of tools, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the data processing and simulation pipeline: image processing and segmentation; real-time 3-D volume visualization; 3-D geometry reconstruction; 3-D mesh generation; and blood flow simulation and visualization.
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 01/1999; 2(4):268-74. · 1.68 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Virtual angioscopy is a non invasive medical procedure for exploring parts of the human vascular system. We have developed an interactive tool that takes as input, data acquired with standard medical imaging modalities and regards it as a virtual environment to be interactively inspected. The system supports real time navigation with stereoscopic direct volume rendering and dynamic endoscopic camera control, interactive tissue classification, and interactive point picking for morphological feature measurement. We provide an overview of the system, discuss the techniques used in our prototype, and present experimental results on human data sets.
Visualization '98. Proceedings; 11/1998
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Medicon98, June. 01/1998;
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ATTI DEL CONGRESSO ANNUALE-ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER L INFORMATICA ED IL CALCOLO AUTOMATICO. 01/1993;