title: A review of technical advances in virtual colonoscopy.
abstract: Early detection of polyps has proven to lead to a decrease in incidence of colon cancer. In the past few years, virtual colonoscopy has been developed as a patient-friendly screen-ing technique. The procedure comprises the following steps. First, the patient's colon is cleansed and transanally inflated with air. Subsequently, a 3D image volume is acquired of the abdomen by CT or MRI. Finally, the bowel surface is extracted and visualized, after which the physician virtually navigates through the colon and examines the surface for abnormalities. This paper describes the progress in research for virtual colonoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Pattern Recognition Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. frans@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vos
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Serlie
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Gelder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stoker
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vrooman
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Post
mesh_terms: D023881:Colonography, Computed Tomographic; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging