ABSTRACT
FIGURE 7.10 Dissection of the visible human. Used in a state-of-the-art visualization environment, these data represent a new quality of anatomical imaging.
7.2.1 Radiological Data At first glance, one might expect diagnostic radiology to be the major field of application for volume visualization in medicine. In general, however, this is not the case. One of the reasons is clearly that radiologists are especially skilled in reading cross-sectional images. Another reason is that many diagnostic tasks such as tumor detection and classification can be done based on cross-sectional images. Further more, 3D visualization of these objects from MRI requires robust segmentation algorithms which are not yet available. A number of successful applications are presented in Reference 94.
