@ARTICLE {Auzinger-2013-VVC,
author = "Thomas Auzinger and Gabriel Mistelbauer and Ivan Baclija and R{\"u}diger Schernthaner and Arnold K{\"o}chl and Michael Wimmer and Meister Eduard Gr{\"o}ller and Stefan Bruckner",
title = "Vessel Visualization using Curved Surface Reformation",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics",
year = "2013",
volume = "19",
number = "12",
pages = "2858--2867",
month = "dec",
abstract = "Visualizations of vascular structures are frequently used in radiological  investigations to detect and analyze vascular diseases. Obstructions  of the blood flow through a vessel are one of the main interests  of physicians, and several methods have been proposed to aid the  visual assessment of calcifications on vessel walls. Curved Planar  Reformation (CPR) is a wide-spread method that is designed for peripheral  arteries which exhibit one dominant direction. To analyze the lumen  of arbitrarily oriented vessels, Centerline Reformation (CR) has  been proposed. Both methods project the vascular structures into  2D image space in order to reconstruct the vessel lumen. In this  paper, we propose Curved Surface Reformation (CSR), a technique that  computes the vessel lumen fully in 3D. This offers high-quality interactive  visualizations of vessel lumina and does not suffer from problems  of earlier methods such as ambiguous visibility cues or premature  discretization of centerline data. Our method maintains exact visibility  information until the final query of the 3D lumina data. We also  present feedback from several domain experts.",
pdf = "pdfs/Auzinger-2013-VVC.pdf",
images = "images/Auzinger-2013-VVC.jpg",
thumbnails = "images/Auzinger-2013-VVC.png",
youtube = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rESIFaO_-Gs",
doi = "10.1109/TVCG.2013.215",
event = "IEEE VIS 2013",
keywords = "volume Rendering, reformation, vessel, surface approximation",
url = "//www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2013/Auzinger_Mistelbauer_2013_CSR/"
}