TEXTURING OF 3D MEDICAL IMAGES

摘要

A computing system having at least one processor is arranged to convert medical imaging data into a three-dimensional (3D) model of a medical object that has non-natural texturing (not naturally found in nature on the medical object). Medical imaging data is converted into a 3D surface representation, which may be exported into an engineering file format. The engineering file formatted data is then further converted into a 3D model of the medical object where color and/or surface texturing is applied to create 3D model of the medical object with non-natural texturing, and optionally other non-natural features. In one embodiment, the 3D model may then be printed using a 3D printing device to generate a physical representation of the medical object with non-natural texturing. The 3D model may also be rendered for use in generating one or more 3D images, such as a 3D animation sequence.

主权项

1. A computing system, comprising:
a non-transitory storage device configured to store medical imaging data of a medical object acquired from a medical imaging device, the medical imaging data being in a medical imaging data format; one or more computing devices having at least one processor configured to perform actions comprising:
converting the medical imaging data into a three-dimensional (3D) surface representation of the medical object; andgenerating a 3D model of the medical object having a non-natural surface texture using the 3D surface representation of the medical object.