Interactive 3D medical data cutting using closed curve with arbitrary shape

Volume clipping is typically used in visualizing medical data, preparing surgical plans and processing images, because it conveniently clips away selected parts of volume data. Volume clipping is also a useful approach in exploring the interior details of volume data [1]. Accurate volume data clipping can meet users’ requirements to design more complicated volume model by cutting and pasting existing volume data [2]. Combined with image segmentation algorithms, clipping operation can be used as a pre-processing step to extract region of interest (ROI) in volume images, such as tumor organizations or important brain functional areas.
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research