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CT–SPECT Analyzer - A Tool for CT and SPECT Data Fusion and Volumetric Visualization

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Image Processing and Communications Challenges 9 (IP&C 2017)

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Data fusion and specific visualization of CT and SPECT are important for diagnosis and research purposes. Selected problems are considered in the paper and are related to the developed CT–SPECT Analyzer software. Hierarchical mapping with SPECT priority for maximum value of rays is applied in this software. Three variants of color mappings are presented. Some practical aspects related to low quality of CT are considered also. The most promising is the rainbow gradient with gamma curve adjustment.

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Acknowledgment

This study was supported by grant from budget resources for science in the years 2010–2015 as a research project No. N N402 463339 (Poland).

This work is supported by the UE EFRR ZPORR project Z/2.32/I/1.3.1/267/05 “Szczecin University of Technology – Research and Education Center of Modern Multimedia Technologies” (Poland).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan X GPU used for this research.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Maria H. Listewnik, Hanna Piwowarska-Bilska, Jacek Iwanowski & Bożena Birkenfeld

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Krzysztof Safranow

  3. Department of Histology and Developmental Biology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Maria Laszczyńska

  4. Department of Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Maria Chosia

  5. Department of General Surgery and Transplantology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Marek Ostrowski

  6. Department of Signal Processing and Multimedia Engineering, West–Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, 26. Kwietnia 10 St., 71126, Szczecin, Poland

    Przemysław Mazurek

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Listewnik, M.H. et al. (2018). CT–SPECT Analyzer - A Tool for CT and SPECT Data Fusion and Volumetric Visualization. In: Choraś, M., Choraś, R. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 9. IP&C 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 681. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68720-9_2

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