Merging virtual objects with the real world
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsPublished 1 July 1992
Michael Bajura, Henry Fuchs, Ryutarou Ohbuchi
Citations334
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
Abstract
article Free Access Share on Merging virtual objects with the real world: seeing ultrasound imagery within the patient Authors: Michael Bajura Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NCView Profile , Henry Fuchs Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NCView Profile , Ryutarou Ohbuchi Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NCView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsVolume 26Issue 2July 1992 pp 203–210https://doi.org/10.1145/142920.134061Online:01 July 1992Publication History 374citation3,190DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations374Total Downloads3,190Last 12 Months169Last 6 weeks38 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF
Keywords
Computer Science
IEEE Computer Graphics and ApplicationsDisplay of surfaces from volume data
2,418 Citations1988Marc Levoy
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsA rendering algorithm for visualizing 3D scalar fields
482 Citations1988P. Sabella
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaExplososcan: A parallel processing technique for high speed ultrasound imaging with linear phased arrays
395 Citations1984David P. Shattuck, Marc D. Weinshenker +2 more
A parallel processing scheme has been implemented which enables the data acquisition rate to increase by a factor of four through the simultaneous acquisition of four B‐mode image lines from each individual broadened transmit pulse.
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency ControlHigh-speed ultrasound volumetric imaging system. II. Parallel processing and image display
390 Citations1991Olaf T. von Ramm, Stephen W. Smith +1 more
The design, application, and evaluation of parallel processing to the high-speed volumetric ultrasound imaging system, which uses pulse-echo phased array principles to steer a 2-D array transducer of 289 elements in a pyramidal scan format is described.
IEEE Computer Graphics and ApplicationsA hybrid ray tracer for rendering polygon and volume data
230 Citations1990Marc Levoy
Volume rendering, a technique for visualizing sampled functions of three spatial dimensions by computing 2-D projections of a colored semitransparent volume, is extended to handle polygonally defined objects using a hybrid ray-tracing algorithm.
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsFast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and imgage enhancements in pixel-planes
194 Citations1985Henry Fuchs, Jack Goldfeather +6 more
Computer Vision Graphics and Image ProcessingThe detection of intensity changes by computer and biological vision systems
176 Citations1983Ellen C. Hildreth
The implementation of a theory for the detection of intensity changes, proposed by Marr and Hildreth, where the image is first processed independently through a set of different size operators, whose shape is the Laplacian of a Gaussian, ▿2G(x, y).
On temporal-spatial realism in the virtual reality environment
174 Citations1991Jiandong Liang, Chris Shaw +1 more
A predictive Kalman filter was designed to compensate for the delay in orientation data, and an anisotropic low pass filter was devised to reduce the noise in position data to tackle temporal-spatial distortion.
PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented RealityA Computational Model for the Stereoscopic Optics of a Head-Mounted Display
155 Citations1992Warren Robinett, Jannick P. Rolland
A computational model for the geometry of a head-mounted display is presented, and the parameters of thismodel for the VPL EyePhone are calculated.
Journal of Ultrasound in MedicineThree-dimensional spatial registration and interactive display of position and orientation of real-time ultrasound images.
148 Citations1990Donald L. King, DL King +1 more
A three‐dimensional ultrasound scanner has been constructed that provides spatial registration and display of position and orientation of real‐time images while allowing unconstrained movement of the scanning transducer.
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsPixel-planes 5: a heterogeneous multiprocessor graphics system using processor-enhanced memories
148 Citations1989Henry Fuchs, John W. Poulton +8 more
Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyThree-dimensional reconstruction of echocardiographic images using the rotation method
139 Citations1982Amitabha Ghosh, Navin C. Nanda +1 more
Three-dimensional reconstructed volumes closely correlated with those obtained by left ventricular angiography, and the feasibility and simplicity of three-dimensional reconstruction using the rotation method are demonstrated.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringAn Ultrasonic Technique for Imaging the Ventricle in Three Dimensions and Calculating Its Volume
123 Citations1983William E. Moritz, Alan S. Pearlman +4 more
A technique which can determine the spatial position and orientation of a collection of real-time two-dimensional ultrasonic scanners with respect to a reference coordinate system appears to offer the potential for the accurate assessment of ventricular volume in man.
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer GraphicsPixelFlow: high-speed rendering using image composition
123 Citations1992Steven Molnar, John Eyles +1 more
A demonstrated optical tracker with scalable work area for head-mounted display systems
121 Citations1992Mark Ward, Ronald Azuma +3 more
An optoelectronic head-tracking system for head-mounted displays that was demonstrated at the ACM SIGGRAPH '91 conference and adopted an overdetermined mathematical model for the computation of head position: space resection by collinearity is described.
Journal of the American College of CardiologyDynamic three-dimensional reconstruction of the left ventricle from two-dimensional echocardiograms
114 Citations1986Joel S. Raichlen, Sushma S. Trivedi +3 more
Open chest three-dimensional echocardiography provides a powerful tool for the quantitative physiologic investigation of the left ventricle and permits the analysis of global and regional volumetric and myocardial thickness changes throughout the cardiac cycle.
American Heart JournalDynamic three-dimensional echocardiographic reconstruction of the intact human left ventricle: Technique and initial observations in patients
109 Citations1982Edward A. Geiser, Mario Ariet +4 more
Proceedings of the IEEEMultidimensional ultrasonic imaging for cardiology
97 Citations1988H. McCann, J.C. Sharp +4 more
The authors conducted three sets of experiments to test the hypothesis that complete acoustic backscatter data should be retained to produce useful information about heart structure and function and concluded that the resulting images show details of cardiac anatomy and have great clinical promise.
Journal of Clinical UltrasoundThree‐dimensional echocardiography for spatial visualization and volume calculation of cardiac structures
81 Citations1981Masayuki Matsumoto, Michitoshi Inoue +3 more
A new computerized image processing system was developed and applied clinically for three‐dimensional visualization and volume calculation of cardiac structures, which were recorded in more than seven original two‐dimensional echocardiograms in parallel planes.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular DiagnosisA mechanical arm for spatial registration of two‐dimensional echocardiographic sections
62 Citations1982Edward A. Geiser, Leonard G. Christie +3 more
A mechanical arm with five degrees of freedom was developed so that the position and orientation of 2-D echo sections could be calculated in three-dimensional space.
Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyUltimate limits in ultrasonic imaging resolution
58 Citations1991Russell A. Harris, D H Follett +2 more
An optimisation system for aperture size and ultrasonic frequency is proposed with signal averaging for resolution enhancement of a defined object area, which would have a compact ultrasonic beam and allow frame rate to be traded for resolution, by means of signal averaging.
Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyUltrasonic three-dimensional imaging and volume from a series of arbitrary sector scans
49 Citations1978James F. Brinkley, William E. Moritz +1 more
A computer-based system has been developed for generating a three-dimensional reconstruction of an organ as a series of arbitrary outlines from a real-time, two-dimensional ultrasonic sector scanner, allowing nearly complete freedom of motion of the scan head.
Journal of Ultrasound in MedicineTexture in tissue echograms. Speckle or information?
43 Citations1990J.M. Thijssen, B.J. Oosterveld
Tissue characterization is feasible if these characteristics are analyzed by statistical methods and structural order in tissues can be quantified by autocorrelation analysis and clinical studies on diffuse liver diseases support this conclusion.
Journal of the American College of CardiologyEchocardiographic three-dimensional visualization of the heart
29 Citations1990Riccardo Pini, Elisabetta Monnini +6 more
A novel rotating echocardiographic probe is developed which allows “real” 3-D reconstruction of the beating heart from 62 standard fan shaped two-dimensional images acquired at 2.903 degree increments of rotation around its central axis.
Information and ControlThe extended entropy uncertainty principle
27 Citations1960Roy B. Leipnik
A minimum principle is obtained for the entropy in the Wigner-Moyal distribution of linear position and momentum that supports the conjecture, previously discussed in the statistically independent case, that the joint dimensionless entropy of noncommuting observables has a positive minimum.
Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyAn analysis of three-dimensional reconstructive echocardiography
27 Citations1984Kevin R. Stickels, L. Samüel Wann
Three-dimensional reconstructive echocardiography provides the necessary data for a complete description of cardiac structure and function and application to the three-dimensional reconstruction of the endocardial surface yields a graphics display of a multiple tomographic slice ensemble.
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIEThree-Dimensional Reconstruction Of Ultrasound Images
23 Citations1989Robert C. Lalouche, Dan Bickmore +4 more
It is demonstrated that 3-D ultra-sound images can be created which bring out features difficult to discern in 2-D ultrasound images.
IEEE Computer Graphics and ApplicationsThree-Dimensional Digital Display of Ultrasonograms
13 Citations1984Shohei Nakamura
Computerized projection and display of hundreds of sequential ultrasonic images can yield molded 3-D images of an object's surface that are useful in exact disease diagnosis.
UltrasonicsA computer-aided three-dimensional display system for ultrasonic diagnosis of a breast tumour
9 Citations1979Masayasu Itoh, Hiroshi Yokoi
Incremental Volume Rendering Algorithm for Interactive 3D Ultrasound Imaging
4 Citations1991Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Henry Fuchs
Surface Estimation in Ultrasound Images
3 Citations2010Stephen M. Pizer, Valen E. Johnson
A Bayesian approach is proposed here for surface definition of noisy images in general as the estimation of posterior means and standard deviations of Gibbs distributions for surface believability and normal direction.