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Visualization in Biomedical Computing

4th International Conference, VBC '96, Hamburg, Germany, September 22 - 25, 1996, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1131)

Conference series link(s): VBC: International Conference on Visualization in Biomedical Computing

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Table of contents (74 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. GI tract unraveling in volumetric CT

    • Ge Wang, Michael W. Vannier, Elizabeth G. McFarland, Jay P. Heiken, James A. Brink
    Pages 1-12
  3. Segmentation of the visible human for high quality volume based visualization

    • Thomas Schiemann, Jochen Nuthmann, Ulf Tiede, Karl Heinz Höhne
    Pages 13-22
  4. Illustrating anatomic models — A semi-interactive approach

    • Bernhard Preim, Alf Ritter, Thomas Strothotte
    Pages 23-32
  5. A fast rendering method using the tree structure of objects in virtualized bronchus endoscope system

    • Kensaku Mori, Jun-ichi Hasegawa, Jun-ichiro Toriwaki, Hirofumi Anno, Kazuhiro Katada
    Pages 33-42
  6. Visualization of tissue elasticity by magnetic resonance elastography

    • A. Manduca, R. Muthupillai, P. J. Rossman, J. F. Greenleaf, R. L. Ehman
    Pages 63-68
  7. Accurate vessel depiction with phase gradient algorithm in MR angiography

    • Romhild Hoogeveen, Chris Bakker, Max Viergever
    Pages 69-74
  8. Rebuilding the visible man

    • John E. Stewart, William C. Broaddus, James H. Johnson
    Pages 81-86
  9. Image quality improvements in volume rendering

    • Jeroen Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Marco Bosma, Jaap Smit, Steven Lobregt
    Pages 87-92
  10. Real-time merging of visible surfaces for display and segmentation

    • Robert P. Grzeszczuk, Charles A. Pelizzari
    Pages 93-98
  11. Cortical peeling: CSF/grey/white matter boundaries visualized by nesting isosurfaces

    • Colin J. Holmes, David MacDonald, John G. Sled, Arthur W. Toga, Alan C. Evans
    Pages 99-104
  12. Enhancement of MR images

    • Régis Guillemaud, Michael Brady
    Pages 105-116
  13. 3D reconstruction of cerebral vessels and pathologies from a few biplane digital angiographies

    • Laurent Launay, Eric Maurincomme, Pierre Bouchet, Jean-Laurent Mallet, Luc Picard
    Pages 123-128
  14. An extensible MRI simulator for post-processing evaluation

    • Remi K. -S. Kwan, Alan C. Evans, G. Bruce Pike
    Pages 135-140
  15. Compensation of spatial inhomogeneity in MRI based on a parametric bias estimate

    • Christian Brechbühler, Guido Gerig, Gábor Székely
    Pages 141-146

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Visualization in Biomedical Computing, VBC '96, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 1996.
The 73 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 232 submissions. The book reports the state of the art in the field of computer based visualization in medicine and biology. The papers are organized in sections on visualization; image processing; segmentation; registration; brain: description of shape; brain: characterization of pathology; brain: visualization of function; simulation of surgery and endoscopy; image guided surgery and endoscopy.

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