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3D Human Heart Anatomy : Simulation and Visualization Based on MR Images

Authors:
Chebbi Tawfik
Rawia Frikha
Ridha Ejbali
Mourad Zaied

Keywords: heart; MRI; Marching Cubes; Segmentation; Augmented

Abstract:
Understanding the human heart anatomy is important in order to extract information and to understand how it works. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a robust solution to extract some information about the heart anatomy. Data from multiple image planes can be combined to create a 3D model of the cardiac system. The shape of the human heart is an irregular shape that makes it difficult to model and it takes many hours to create a 3D shape of the human heart with a high details and precision. A new three-dimensional heart model has been developed including structural information from MRI. The method uses Marching Cubes (MC) Algorithm for the extraction of an equipotential surface (subsurface) of a 3D mesh structured and uniform model. In order to visualize the 3D virtual model created in a real environment, we use Augmented Reality techniques (AR).

Pages: 212 to 216

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016