Enhanced visualization for improved lesion diagnosis in virtual colonoscopy
E.J. Pols · Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) · 2008
I would like to express my gratitude to all who have helped me to create this master thesis and to ac-complish the research that preceded it. First and foremost I would like to thank my direct supervisors Frits Post and Charl Botha of the medical visualization group at the EWI faculty of the TU Delft. Their advice and extensive knowledge in the field of medical visualization proved indispensable. I also thank Lingxiao Zhao for his help to get me started and his adaptation of his curvature algorithm, and Simona Grigorescu and Vincent van Ravesteijn of the Physics faculty. Furthermore I would like to thank Roel Truyen and Iwo Serlie attached to Philips Medical Systems who commented on my work and helped me wherever they could, as well as providing the financial and technical means to execute this research. I also thank Kees Visser for the technical support and Javier Bescos for his comments in the early phase of this research. I also would like to thank Ayso de Vries and Marjolein Liedenbaum from the Amsterdam Medical Cen-ter who provided commentary from a clinical perspective and helped me to gain an understanding of the way radiologists think, something that is regularly undervalued. They also were my subjects in the expert evaluation for which I am thankful. Last but not least I would like to thank my beloved fiancee for her never ending support, and my room