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This paper presents a new approach dealing with navigation inside anatomical structures. Departing from conventional fly through approaches which require a preprocessing of volume data or an interactive control of the virtual sensor exploring the volume, the proposed method combines the on-line computation of the scene view and its analysis to automatically define the 3-D sensor path. The navigation environment and the camera-like model are sketched in the first section. The basic stages of the active navigation scheme are then described: (i) the virtual image computation (based on ray casting); (ii) the image analysis (using depth maps and surface normal vector fields); (iii) the path estimation. Preliminary results are finally reported using standard MRI and MRA data sets. They are discussed and some immediate perspectives are given in the last section.
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Bellemare, M.E., Haigron, P., Coatrieux, J.L. (1997). Toward an active three dimensional navigation system in medical imaging. In: Troccaz, J., Grimson, E., Mösges, R. (eds) CVRMed-MRCAS'97. CVRMed MRCAS 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029255
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