S. Lakare, D. Chen, L. Li, A. Kaufman and J. Liang(2002) "
Electronic Colon Cleansing Using Segmentation Rays
for Virtual Colonoscopy
,"
to appear in SPIE 2002 Symposium on Medical Imaging,
San Diego, CA, February 2002
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L. Li, D. Chen, S. Lakare, K. Kreeger, I. Bitter, A. Kaufman, M. R. Wax,
P. M. Djuric, and Z. Liang(2002) "
An Image Segmentation Approach to Extract Colon
Lumen through Colonic Material Tagging and Hidden Markov Random Field Model
for Virtual Colonoscopy
,"
to appear in SPIE 2002 Symposium on Medical Imaging,
San Diego, CA, February 2002
(full paper:
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I. Bitter, A. Kaufman and M. Sato(2001) "
Penallized-Distance Volumetric Skeleton Algorithm
,"
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
Vol. 7, No. 3, July-Sept. 2001, pp. 195-206
(full paper:
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M. Wan, F. Dachille, and A. Kaufman (2001) "
Distance-Field Based Skeletons for Virtual
Navigation
,"
Visualization 2001, San Diego, CA, October 2001
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M. Sato, S. Lakare, M. Wan, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, and M. Wax (2001) "
An automatic colon segmentation for 3D virtual
colonoscopy
,"
IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, Vol. E84-D, No. 1, January 2001,
pp. 201-208.
(full paper:
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D. Chen, Z. Liang, M. Wax, Lihong Li, B. Li, and A. Kaufman (2000) "
A Novel Approach to Extract Colon Lumen from CT Images
for Virtual Colonoscopy
,"
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 12, December 2000, pp. 1220-1226.
(full paper:
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M. Wax, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, S. Lakare, D. Chen, I. Bitter, K. Kreeger, M. Sato, M. Wan, W. Li, J. Bhowmick, and J. Anderson (2000) " Virtual Colonoscopy - CT Contrast Agent ," Second International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy, Boston, MA, October 2000
K. Kreeger, F. Dachille, M. Wan, M. Wax, I. Bitter, W. Li, A. Kaufman, and Z. Liang(2000) " Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy on an Affordable PC ," Second International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy, Boston, MA, October 2000
S. Lakare, M. Wan, M. Sato, and A. Kaufman (2000) " 3D Digital Cleansing Using Segmentation Rays ," IEEE Visualization 2000 Conference Proceedings, ACM/SIGGRAPH Press, pp. 37-44, October 2000
S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman (2000) " Automated Pre-navigation processing for Virtual Colonoscopy," Second International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy, pp., October 2000
K. Kreeger, W. Li, S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman (2000) "
Perspective Virtual Endoscopy with VolumePro Parallel
Rendering
,"
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D. Chen, B. Li, Z. Liang, M. Wan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax (2000) "
A tree-branch searching, multi-resolution approach
to skeletonization for virtual endoscopy
,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2000, February 2000
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M. Wan, W. Li, K. Kreeger, I. Bitter, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, D. Chen,
and M. Wax (2000) "
3D Virtual Colonoscopy with Real-time Volume Rendering
,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2000, February 2000
(full paper:
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M. Wax, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, and K. Kreeger (2000) " Advancing Virtural Colonoscopy to Practice ," International Workshop on 3D Imaging and Virtual Endoscopy, pp., February 2000
W. Li, M. Wan, B. Chen, and A. Kaufman (1999) "
Virtual Colonoscopy Powered by VolumePro,"
pp.,
1999
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M. Wan, Q. Tang, A. Kaufman, and Z. Liang (1999) "
Volume Rendering Based Interactive Navigation within
the Human Colon
,"
IEEE Visualization '99 conference, San Francisco, CA, Oct, 1999,
pp. 397-400
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R. Chiou, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, L. Hong, and M. Achniotou (1999) " Interactive Fly-Path Planning Using Potential Fields and Cell Decomposition for Virtual Endoscopy ," IEEE Trans Nuclear Sciences, vol. 46, no. 4, Aug 1999, pp. 1045-1049
D. Chen, T. Button, H. Li, W. Huang, and Z. Liang (1999) " MR Imaging and Segmentation of the Colon Wall for Virtual Colonscopy ," Soc Magn Reson Medicine, vol. 3, pp. 2203
R. Chiou, D. Chen, Z. Liang, and A. Kaufman (1999) " Volume Segmentation and Rendering of Mixtures of Materials for Virtual Colonoscopy ," SPIE Medical Imaging '99, Feb. 1999, pp. 133-138
Z. Liang, D. Chen, R. Chiou, B. Li, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax (1999) " On Segmentation of Colon Lumen for Virtual Colonoscopy ," SPIE Medical Imaging, Feb. 1999, pp. 270-278
Z. Liang, D. Chen, A. Kaufman, M. Wan, B. Li, and M. Wax (1999) " Virtual Endoscopy in Early Detection of Cancers ," Biomedical Imaging Symposium: Visualizing the Future of Biology and Medicine, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1999, pp.
R. Chiou, A. Kaufman, and Z. Liang (1998) " Unified Analysis, Modeling, Matching and Synthesis for CT Color Texture Mapping from the Visible Human Dataset ," The Second Visible Human Project Conf., Bethesda, MD, Oct. 1998, pp.
M. Wan, S. Bryson, and A. Kaufman (1998) " Boundary Cell-Based Acceleration for Volume Ray Casting ," Computer & Graphices, vol. 22, No. 6, 1998, pp. 715-721
R. Chiou, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, L. Hong, and M. Achniotou (1998) "
Interactive Path Planning for Virtual Endoscopy
,"
Conf Record IEEE NSS-MIC, Nov. 1998, pp.
(full paper:
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M. Wax, Z. Liang, D. Chen, B. Li, R. Chiou, A. Kaufman, and A. Viswambharan (1998) " Electronic Colon Cleansing for Virtual Colonoscopy ," Presentation at the first Intl Conf on Virtual Colonoscopy, Boston, MA, Oct. 1998, pp.
Z. Liang, F. Yang, M. Wax, J. Li, J. You, A. Kaufman, L. Hong, H. Li, and A. Viswambharan (1997) " Inclusion of A Priori Information in Segmentation of Colon Lumen for Virtual Colonoscopy ," Conf Record IEEE NSS-MIC, CD, Nov. 1997, pp.
S. You, L. Hong, M. Wan, K. Junyaprasert, A. Kaufman, S. Muraki,
Y. Zhou, M. Wax, and Z. Liang (1997) "
Interactive Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonscopy
,"
IEEE Visualization '97 Conf Proc, ACM/SIGGRAPH Press, Oct. 1997,
pp. 433-436
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L. Hong, Z. Liang, A. Viswambharan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax (1997) " Reconstruction and Visualizaiton of 3D Models of the Colonic Surface ," IEEE Trans Nucl Science, vol. 44, no. 3, Jun. 1997, pp. 1297-1302
L. Hong, S. Muraki, A. Kaufman, D. Bartz, and T. He (1997)
"
Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the
Human Colon
,"
Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH '97, Aug. 1997, pp. 27-34
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A. Viswambharan, M. Wax, L. Hong, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, and T. Botton (1996) " Virtual Colonoscopy: Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Mucosal Surface of the Colon ," Conf of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Dec. 1996, pp. 565 (Scientific Merit Award)
L. Hong, Z. Liang, A. Viswambharan, A. Kaufman, and M. Wax (1996)
"
3D Reconstruction and Visualization of the Inner Surface of the Colon from Spiral
CT Data
,"
Conf Record IEEE NSS-MIC, vol. 3,
pp. 1506-1510
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L. Hong, S. Muraki, T. He, and A. Kaufman (1996)
"
Physcially-Based Interactive Navigation
,"
Technical Report TR.96.01.09, Computer Science Department,
SUNY at Stony Brook, Jan. 1996
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L. Hong, A. Kaufman, Z. Liang, A. Viswambharan, and M. Wax (1996) " Visible Human Virtual Colonoscopy ," Conference of National Library of Medicine Visible Human Project, Oct. 1996, pp. 29-30
L. Hong, A. Kaufman, Y. Wei, A. Viswambharan, M. Wax, and Z. Liang (1995)
"
3D Virtual Colonoscopy
,"
IEEE Symposium on Frontier in Biomedical Visualization, IEEE CS Press,
Los Alamitos, Oct. 1995, pp. 26-32
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