An Application to Interact with 3D Models Reconstructed from Medical Images

Abstract

Although the reconstruction of 3D models from medical images is not an easy task, there are many algorithms to perform it. However, the reconstructed models are usually large, have a lot of outliers and have not a correct topology. For that reason, the algorithms used to interact with them must be fast and robust. In this paper, we present an application that enables the interaction with models reconstructed from medical images. The application uses Marching Cubes to generate triangle soups from the medical images. Then, the user can define models by selecting a set of triangles. Once the models have been defined, the application allows to interact with them. In addition, a detailed collision detection is calculated between the models in the scene in order not only to avoid that models in the scene collide, but also to determine which triangles are overlapping. In addition, the calculation of distances and nearest points provides visual aid when the user is interacting with the models.