title: Virtual open heart surgery segmentation.
abstract: We have developed a semi-automated segmentation method based on the Watershed transform [1]. The watershed transform is a fast and intuitive segmentation method. It is applied to 3D cardiac MRI to interactively produce patient-specific models for pre-operative planning and virtual heart surgery [2]. Our soft-ware offers a detailed exploration of the data-set via combination of many visualization techniques such as volume rendering, multiple overlays, and surface rendering.
authors: Ecole des Mines de Paris, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique.
authors: Stawiaski
authors: S
authors: Jean
authors: Mosegaard
authors: M
authors: Jesper
authors: Sørensen
authors: S
authors: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000193:education*; D014584:User-Computer Interface