2011 NAMIC Project week: Real-Time Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy

• 

  Projects List

• 

  Example Slicer3 CTC with Volume Rendering

Key Investigators

• MGH: Yin Wu, June-Goo Lee, Hiro Yoshida
• BWH/Isomics: Steve Pieper, Alex Yarmarkovich, Ron Kikinis

Objective

Optimize interactive performance of open source volume rendering on commodity computing devices:

• vtkGPU ray cast mapper with view-dependent field of view (cropping)
  • slicer3 endoscopy module with volume cropped to transformed ROI
  • plans for slicer4
    • PythonQt endoscopy module
    • design discussions for volume rendering in slicer4
• vtkCUDA library
  • custom volume rendering
  • GPGPU computing

Approach, Plan

• Identify other projects/researchers with an interest in real-time volume rendering
• Identify other projects/researchers with an interest in GPGPU computing environment
• Assess needs for slicer4 implementation

Progress

Collaborating Projects

NA-MIC Virtual Colonoscopy Project PAR-07-249: R01CA131718