Publication: Development of virtual reality environment for hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) pre-surgical planning
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2009-04-01
Authors
Koh, Che Hun
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In traditional Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) pre-surgical planning, surgeons are required to view the volumetric information using specific 2D image viewers and build a mental 3D liver model. This is a difficult task even for the experienced surgeons. Hence this project is to provide virtual reality (VR) environment which done by converting 2D abdominal slices into 3D model and develop graphical user interface (GUI) for pre-surgical planning. Marching cubes algorithm is introduced to reconstruct the 3D mesh obtain 3D model. The model is drawn by using OpenGL graphical library on the GUI. Development of GUI using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition provides interface between user and the 3D model. It provides the users many functions to manipulate the 3D model in order to fulfill the basic requirement in virtual reality (VR). Results are obtained by drawing the 3D models on GUI. Performance of the application is measured by the interaction between GUI and user and also the total number of triangular facets created to reconstruct the 3D model.