Computer-aided liver surgical planning system using CT volumes

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013:2013:2360-3. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610012.

Abstract

In this paper, we presented our newly developed computer-aided liver surgical planning system for patient-specific treatments by using the patient's CT volumes. The system is composed of three modules, liver segmentation, vessel extraction, and visualization & interaction modules. It can prepare a virtual environment for patient-specific liver surgical planning and simulations. We also developed an original visualization library, which is based on GPU (graphics processing unit) computing for real-time interaction and visualization. The effectiveness of our system was evaluated by surgeons with liver surgery simulations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Liver / blood supply
  • Liver / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver / surgery*
  • Patient Care Planning
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • User-Computer Interface