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Geometric modelling for virtual colon unfolding

Anna Vilanova and Meister Eduard Groeller

a) Constant angle sampling of the organ surface. b) Same camera position as a) but with perimeter sampling

A virtual endoscopie view is not necessarily the best way to examine a hollow organ, such us, the colon. The inner surface of the colon is where polyps are located, and therefore what is examined by the physicians. A flight through the colon using a common endoscopie view shows a smal! percentage of the inner surface. Virtually unfolding of the colon can be a more etficient way to look at the inner surface. We propose two methods to unfold the colon : a method that unfolds the colon locally using local projections, and a method that obtains global unfolding of the colon by achieving a suitable parameterization of its surface.

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Anna Vilanova and Meister Eduard Groeller, Geometric modelling for virtual colon unfolding, Geometric modeling for scientific visualization, pp. 453–468, 2003.

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@inbook{bib:vilanova:2003,
    author       = { Vilanova, Anna and Groeller, Meister Eduard },    
    title        = { Geometric modelling for virtual colon unfolding },
    booktitle    = { Geometric modeling for scientific visualization },
    editors      = { Brunnet,G },
    year         = { 2003 },
    pages        = { 453--468 },
    publisher    = { Springer },
    address      = { Berlin },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/556 },
}