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KMID : 1137820110320030251
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의공학회지
2011 Volume.32 No. 3 p.251 ~ p.256
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Development of a Smooth Colon Surface Restoration Method for Electronic Colon Cleansing
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Kim Dong-Sung
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Abstract
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Virtual colonoscopy is favored over conventional colonoscopy because its non-invasive procedure can avoid complications that may happen in a conventional approach and because it can cleanse colon electronically instead of uncomfortable conventional colon cleansing. Electronic Colon Cleansing(ECC) has to deal with not only removing tagged fecal material but also recovering Partial Volume Effect(PVE) due to tagging material. This paper proposes an ECC method restoring inherent natural PVE while previous approaches focused only on reducing PVE due to tagged fecal material. The proposed method reduces PVE using 3-dimensional adaptive density correction and then replaces tagged fecal material into air. Next, it generates natural PVE for the replaced air adjacent to soft tissue and finally makes smooth transition of gray values for soft tissue adjacent to the replaced air. The proposed method applied to eleven patient data, and showed promising results.
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KEYWORD
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electronic colon cleansing, virtual colonoscopy, partial volume effect, colon restoration
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