Title
A haptic-enabled novel approach to cardiovascular visualization
Abstract
Intravascular ultra sound IVUS imaging technique is widely used for the detection of plaque deposit inside coronary artery wall. Adequate detection of plaque deposit is necessary for further treatment of the patient, but image by image analysis, nevertheless, is cumbersome. In this paper, we proposed a fully automatic novel method for coronary artery visualization, which takes as an input a number of intravascular ultrasound images to construct the 3D model of coronary artery wall where the plaque deposit is demarcated in a rapid 3D rendering environment. This 3D visualization of coronary artery model has been enhanced in a haptic environment where the user is not only able to visualize the fatty plaque deposit but is also able to feel and differentiate stiffness of plaque deposit as well as soft, elastic property of normal artery through a virtual tour along the artery pathway. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1002/cav.1586
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Keywords
DocType
Volume
haptic,visualization
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3-4
1546-4261
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shamima Yasmin164.75
Nan Du282.46
James Chen310.39
Yusheng Feng494.46