Realistic tissue visualization using photoacoustic image

Seonghee Cho; Ravi Managuli; Seungwan Jeon; Jeesu Kim; Chulhong Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2293105

19 February 2018 Realistic tissue visualization using photoacoustic image

Seonghee Cho, Ravi Managuli, Seungwan Jeon, Jeesu Kim, Chulhong Kim

Proceedings Volume 10494, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2018; 1049433 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293105
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Visualization methods are very important in biomedical imaging. As a technology that understands life, biomedical imaging has the unique advantage of providing the most intuitive information in the image. This advantage of biomedical imaging can be greatly improved by choosing a special visualization method. This is more complicated in volumetric data. Volume data has the advantage of containing 3D spatial information. Unfortunately, the data itself cannot directly represent the potential value. Because images are always displayed in 2D space, visualization is the key and creates the real value of volume data. However, image processing of 3D data requires complicated algorithms for visualization and high computational burden. Therefore, specialized algorithms and computing optimization are important issues in volume data. Photoacoustic-imaging is a unique imaging modality that can visualize the optical properties of deep tissue. Because the color of the organism is mainly determined by its light absorbing component, photoacoustic data can provide color information of tissue, which is closer to real tissue color. In this research, we developed realistic tissue visualization using acoustic-resolution photoacoustic volume data. To achieve realistic visualization, we designed specialized color transfer function, which depends on the depth of the tissue from the skin. We used direct ray casting method and processed color during computing shader parameter. In the rendering results, we succeeded in obtaining similar texture results from photoacoustic data. The surface reflected rays were visualized in white, and the reflected color from the deep tissue was visualized red like skin tissue. We also implemented the CUDA algorithm in an OpenGL environment for real-time interactive imaging.

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Seonghee Cho, Ravi Managuli, Seungwan Jeon, Jeesu Kim, and Chulhong Kim "Realistic tissue visualization using photoacoustic image", Proc. SPIE 10494, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2018, 1049433 (19 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293105

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Visualization

Image visualization

Image processing

Volume rendering

3D image processing

Biomedical optics

Photoacoustic imaging

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