Method and apparatus for the progressive loading of medical multidimensional images into a medical application

摘要

A method includes a) loading a first number n of image sets with an image size ky, the ky images of which are distributed in a regular manner over a volume, which is to be loaded in its entirety as a result; b) loading a number nx of image sets starting with a factor x=1, with the images loaded in total being distributed in a regular manner over the volume; c) determining a camera distance and voxel size based on the number of images loaded, a camera distance and voxel size being suitable as parameters for a volume rendering; and d) repeating the two preceding steps b) and c) while increasing the number of image sets with a factor x=x+1, until all the images of the volume have been loaded in their entirety and/or until the step sequence ends.

主权项

1. A method for the progressive loading of medical, multidimensional images into a medical application, the method comprising:
a) loading a first image set with n=ky images into a memory of a computer, wherein n≧2 and the ky images of which are distributed in a regular manner over a volume, which is to be loaded in its entirety; b) starting with x=1, loading a further image set with nx=(ky)x images into a memory of a computer, with the images in the loaded image sets being distributed in a regular manner over the volume; c) determining a camera distance and voxel size based on the number of loaded images, the camera distance and voxel size being parameters for a volume rendering; and d) repeating steps b) and c) while increasing the variable x with a factor x=x+1, at least one of until all the images of the volume have been loaded into the memory and until the loading is terminated.