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Modeling and visualization of medical anesthesiology acts
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In recent years, medical visualization has evolved from simple 2D images on a light
board to 3D computarized images. This move enabled doctors to find better ways of
planning surgery and to diagnose patients. Although there is a great variety of 3D medical imaging software, it falls short when dealing with anesthesiology acts. Very little anaesthesia related work has been done. As a consequence, doctors and medical students have had little support to study the subject of anesthesia in the human body. We all are aware of how costly can be setting medical experiments, covering not just medical aspects but ethical and financial ones as well. With this work we hope to contribute for having better medical visualization tools in the area of anesthesiology. Doctors and in particular medical students should study anesthesiology acts more efficiently. They should be able to identify better locations to administrate the anesthesia, to study how long does it take for the anesthesia to affect patients, to relate the effect on patients with
quantity of anaesthesia provided, etc. In this work, we present a medical visualization
prototype with three main functionalities: image pre-processing, segmentation and rendering.
The image pre-processing is mainly used to remove noise from images, which were obtained via imaging scanners. In the segmentation stage it is possible to identify
relevant anatomical structures using proper segmentation algorithms. As a proof of concept, we focus our attention in the lumbosacral region of the human body, with
data acquired via MRI scanners. The segmentation we provide relies mostly in two algorithms:
region growing and level sets. The outcome of the segmentation implies the creation of a 3D model of the anatomical structure under analysis. As for the rendering, the 3D models are visualized using the marching cubes algorithm. The software we have
developed also supports time-dependent data. Hence, we could represent the anesthesia
flowing in the human body. Unfortunately, we were not able to obtain such type of data
for testing. But we have used human lung data to validate this functionality.
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Anesthesiology Medical visualization Segmentation Time-dependent data