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V Heid

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PubMed2000

[Volumetric analysis and visualization of cardiologic ultrasound data].

BACKGROUND: Echocardiography is a standard imaging technique for the assessment of heart valve disease. The good spatial and temporal resolution is the basis for different methods which provide information about the severity of such defects. Dynamic colour visualisation and volumetric measurements of regurgitant jets are a new evaluating tool for the assessment of heart valve insufficiencies. METHODS: The regurgitant jet volume of 58 patients was evaluated on an external work-station after segmentation of the left atrium and compared to regurgitant volume; the correlation was good. This result is valid for central jets as well as for eccentric jets. CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of regurgitant jet volume is a method which considers the three-dimensional shape of the examined volume. Real-time visualisation techniques which support the interactive clipping of morphological structures provide dynamic visualisation of intracardiac flow during the heart cycle. Dynamic colour visualisation of jets together with myocardial structures allows the assignment of intracardiac flow to morphological structures.

Computer Graphics↗
PubMed2000

Interactive realtime Doppler-ultrasound visualization of the heart.

Heart valve insufficiencies can optimally be assessed using transesophageal, triggered, three-dimensional ultrasound imaging. The dynamic ultrasound data contain morphological as well as functional components which are recorded and displayed simultaneously. It allows the visualization of intracardiac motion which is an important parameter to detect abnormal flow caused by defect valves. A realtime reconstruction is desired to get a spatial impression on the one hand and to interactively clip parts of the volume on the other hand. Therefore, we use the OpenGL Volumizer API. Scalability of the visualization was tested with respect to different workstations and graphics resources using a Multipipe Utility library. The combination of both APIs enables a visualization of volumetric and functional data with frame rates up to 10 frames per second. By using the proposed method, it is possible to visualize the jet in the original color-coding which is employed during a conventional two-dimensional examination for displaying the velocity values. The morphological and the functional data are handled as two independent data channels. A good scalability from low cost up to high end graphic workstations is given by the use of the MPU. The quality of the resulting 3D images allows exact differentiation of heart valve insufficiencies to support the diagnostic procedure.

Computer Graphics↗
PubMed2000

Design of a distributed CORBA based image processing server.

This paper presents the design and implementation of a distributed image processing server based on CORBA. Existing image processing tools were encapsulated in a common way with this server. Data exchange and conversion is done automatically inside the server, hiding these tasks from the user. The different image processing tools are visible as one large collection of algorithms and due to the use of CORBA are accessible via intra-/internet.

Computer Systems↗