J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2003 Dec;9(4):375-380.

Design & Development of 3D Medical Image Processing System using VTK

• Kim MS
• Lee S

Abstract

Recently, medical image processing systems which take advantages of computer information technology have been used usefully in the hospitals. In particular, the 3D volume rendering technique with a sets of 2D medical images can visualize the organs of human body into 3D image virtually and such systems have started to be used widely to find diseases and to build up the plan of treatment. In this paper, we introduce a medical image processing system which uses a public graphic library VTK so that the system can be developed in the low price with the same power compared to other commercial systems. The system supports 2D and 3D image processing such as image editing, filtering, 3D image reconstruction and etc. by accepting multiple 2D original medical images.

Keyword

Medical Image Processing; Volume Rendering; PACS

MeSH Terms

Human Body
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted