title: CvhSlicer: an interactive cross-sectional anatomy navigation system based on high-resolution Chinese visible human data.
abstract: We introduce the design and implementation of an interactive system for the navigation of cross-sectional anatomy based on Chinese Visible Human (CVH) data, named CvhSlicer. This system is featured in real-time computation and rendering of high-resolution anatomical images on standard personal computers (PCs) equipped with commodity Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to load the whole-body dataset into the memory of a common PC, several processing steps are first applied to compress the huge CVH data. Thereafter, an adaptive CPU-GPU balancing scheme is performed to dynamically distribute rendering tasks among CPU and GPU based on parameters of computing resources. Experimental results demonstrate that our system can achieve real-time performance and has great potential to be used in anatomy education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Chui
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Kwok
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karmakar
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Heng
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D053443:Visible Human Projects