Creating standards for 3D soft-tissue modelling

Abstract

Medical images from hospitals consist of a 2D dataset and provide human body information as a slice. The human body has morphological structures in 3D space. To recognize real human organs, the body should be reconstructed using 2D slices to obtain its precise position and shape. In real clinical situations, doctors expend a great deal of time and effort to learn this reconstruction process. With medical 3D data, we will obtain more information about the human body, as well as more objective data from the simulation, which may contribute to more successful treatment and surgery plans. Especially, the purpose of imaging and modeling is to exact high-quality contents through various data processing from limited medical image information. Trials for standardization describe the generation and practical use of medical three-dimensional (3D) modeling for diagnostics and therapeutic applications. It includes volume rendering and surface rendering techniques for 3D reconstruction from two-dimensional (2D) medical images and a texturing method of 3D medical data for realistic visualization. Urology is a one of the most important fields in which 3D modeling software and 3D medical printing technology can be used in near future.