Visualization of liver in 3-D
Chin-Tu Chen, Jin-Shin Chou, Maryellen Lissak Giger, Charles E. Kahn, Kyongtae T. Bae, Wei‐Chung Lin · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1991
Visualization of the liver in three dimensions (3-D) can improve the accuracy of volumetric estimation and also aid in surgical planning. We have developed a method for 3-D visualization of the liver using x-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) images. This method includes four major components: (1) segmentation algorithms for extracting liver data from tomographic images; (2) interpolation techniques for both shape and intensity; (3) schemes for volume rendering and display, and (4) routines for electronic surgery and image analysis. This method has been applied to cases from a living-donor liver transplant project and appears to be useful for surgical planning.