A tale of two diseases: the history of inflammatory bowel disease

DJ Mulder, AJ Noble, CJ Justinich… - Journal of Crohn's and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Inflammatory bowel disease'(IBD) sounds like a straightforward term—a disease of
inflammation in the bowel. However, the history of IBD reveals a story of a nefariously …

Computed tomography: revolutionizing the practice of medicine for 40 years

GD Rubin - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Computed tomography (CT) has had a profound effect on the practice of medicine. Both the
spectrum of clinical applications and the role that CT has played in enhancing the depth of …

[PDF][PDF] 2014 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases

R Erbel, V Aboyans, C Boileau… - Kardiologia Polska …, 2014 - journals.viamedica.pl
Poziom B Dane pochodzące z jednej randomizowanej próby klinicznej lub dużych badań
nierandomizowanych Poziom C Uzgodniona opinia ekspertów i/lub dane pochodzące z …

Three-dimensional volume rendering of spiral CT data: theory and method

PS Calhoun, BS Kuszyk, DG Heath, JC Carley… - Radiographics, 1999 - pubs.rsna.org
Three-dimensional (3D) medical images of computed tomographic (CT) data sets can be
generated with a variety of computer algorithms. The three most commonly used techniques …

Advanced diagnostic viewer employing automated protocol selection for volume-rendered imaging

VJ Argiro, AM Weiss, MR Rainbow - US Patent 5,986,662, 1999 - Google Patents
VOXel data on a display device attached to a computer is disclosed. In one embodiment of
the invention, the comput erized System has a number of different components. A retrieve …

Tissue classification based on 3D local intensity structures for volume rendering

Y Sato, C Westin, A Bhalerao… - … on visualization and …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a novel approach to tissue classification using three-dimensional (3D)
derivative features in the volume rendering pipeline. In conventional tissue classification for …

A comparison of virtual and conventional colonoscopy for the detection of colorectal polyps

HM Fenlon, DP Nunes, PC Schroy… - … England Journal of …, 1999 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Virtual colonoscopy is a new method of imaging the colon in which thin-section,
helical computed tomography (CT) is used to generate high-resolution, two-dimensional …

Three-dimensional computer-aided diagnosis scheme for detection of colonic polyps

H Yoshida, J Nappi - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided diagnosis scheme for
automated detection of colonic polyps in computed tomography (CT) colonographic data …

System for two dimensional and three dimensional imaging of tubular structures in the human body

CD Johnson, AK Hara, JE Reed - US Patent 5,891,030, 1999 - Google Patents
A system, method, and article of manufacture for imaging tubular structures of the human
body, such as the digestive tract of a living person, with a medical imaging device such as a …

[PDF][PDF] Virtual voyage: Interactive navigation in the human colon

L Hong, S Muraki, A Kaufman, D Bartz… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 1997 - dl.acm.org
Virtual colonoscopy is a non-invasive computerized medical procedure for examining the
entire colon to detect polyps. We present an interactive virtual colonoscopy method, which …