Enabling Real-Time Volume Rendering of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging on an iOS Device.

Powerful non-invasive imaging technologies like computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are used daily by medical professionals to diagnose and treat patients. While 2D slice viewers have long been the standard, many tools allowing 3D representations of digital med...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 738 - 751
Autores principales: Holub, Joseph, Winer, Eliot
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2017
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          Holub, Joseph
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        affil: Virtual Reality Applications Center , Iowa State University , 1620 Howe Hall Ames 50011 USA
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          Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Trends
          Computers, Hand-Held
          Diagnostic Imaging
          Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods
          Human
          Pilot Studies
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
          Algorithms
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed
          Brain Analysis
          Smartphone
          Software Utilization
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      ab: Powerful non-invasive imaging technologies like computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are used daily by medical professionals to diagnose and treat patients. While 2D slice viewers have long been the standard, many tools allowing 3D representations of digital medical data are now available. The newest imaging advancement, functional MRI (fMRI) technology, has changed medical imaging from viewing static to dynamic physiology (4D) over time, particularly to study brain activity. Add this to the rapid adoption of mobile devices for everyday work and the need to visualize fMRI data on tablets or smartphones arises. However, there are few mobile tools available to visualize 3D MRI data, let alone 4D fMRI data. Building volume rendering tools on mobile devices to visualize 3D and 4D medical data is challenging given the limited computational power of the devices. This paper describes research that explored the feasibility of performing real-time 3D and 4D volume raycasting on a tablet device. The prototype application was tested on a 9.7' iPad Pro using two different fMRI datasets of brain activity. The results show that mobile raycasting is able to achieve between 20 and 40 frames per second for traditional 3D datasets, depending on the sampling interval, and up to 9 frames per second for 4D data. While the prototype application did not always achieve true real-time interaction, these results clearly demonstrated that visualizing 3D and 4D digital medical data is feasible with a properly constructed software framework.
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