Method and system for displaying unseen areas in guided two dimensional colon screening

摘要

A method and system for displaying unseen areas in guided two dimensional (2D) colon screening, includes calculating segmentation and colon surface for a colon; calculating a centerline for the colon; designating as a current focus point a current point of intersection of a current portion of the centerline and a current cross-sectional image of a colon in a current image plane; and extracting a colon surface portion in a connected colon component containing the current focus point; and marking voxels of the colon surface portion as a "seen" area. Unseen areas of the colon surface are calculated by subtracting seen areas from the total colon area of observation. The unseen areas may then be displayed.