Wei Hong
ABSTRACT
We present an efficient colon flattening algorithm using a conformal structure, which is angle-preserving and minimizes the global distortion. Moreover, our algorithm is general as it can handle high genus surfaces. First, the colon wall is segmented and extracted from the CT data set of the abdomen. The topology noise (i.e., minute handle) is located and removed automatically. The holomorphic 1-form, a pair of orthogonal vector fields, is then computed on the 3D colon surface mesh using the conjugate gradient method. The colon surface is cut along a vertical trajectory traced using the holomorphic 1-form. Consequently, the 3D colon surface is conformally mapped to a 2D rectangle. The flattened 2D mesh is then rendered using a direct volume rendering method accelerated with the GPU. Our algorithm is tested with a number of CT data sets of real pathological cases, and gives consistent results. We demonstrate that the shape of the polyps is well preserved on the flattened colon images, which provides an efficient way to enhance the navigation of a virtual colonoscopy system.
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