A method of visualization of a brain neural pathway by using critical points and target regions
Akio Doi, H. Fujimura, Masaki Nagano, Takashi Inoue, A. Ogawa · WIT transactions on biomedicine and health · 2007
Visualization of a brain neural pathway is considered as a useful tool for the support of surgery planning.In this paper, we propose a method of visualization of the brain neural pathway by using both critical points and target regions, in order to extract a necessary pathway.Here, a critical point is a vortex center, and we suppose that a neural pathway is a vortical flow field, and we find starting points of streamlines by classifying critical points in the flow field.The user specifies the target regions, such as ROI (Region Of Interest), and visualizes important streamlines that pass through the target regions.