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A multi-threshold 3D reconstruction algorithm
based on labeled medical images

XIAO Hong-xu,YANG Zhi-yong,JIANG Shan,HUANG Zhe,ZHAO Sheng-li   

  1. (School of Mechanical Engineering,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300350,China)
     
  • Received:2015-06-08 Revised:2016-08-20 Online:2017-10-25 Published:2017-10-25

Abstract:

As a traditional surface reconstruction algorithm the marching cubes (MC) is unable to extract multi-
threshold organs at one time. We propose a multi-threshold reconstruction algorithm to divide the target area
and surrounding tissues in the MRI image into several label values. Changing the lables of multi-threshold
organs into brief numbers can decrease the memory space and accelerate the speed of drawing contour surfaces.
We also define the index way of voxel vertexes and isosurface intersecting morphology of multi-threshold
three-dimensional reconstruction, which can avoid the situation of triangle facets and vertexes reuse of the
MC. Furthermore, the contour surface reconstruction of the multi-organ requires only one time scanning of the
MRI image. Experimental results show that the number of facets and vertices is decreased more significantly
when the number of organs is larger and their relationship is closer in comparison with the traditional MC
algorithm, and the reconstruction speed is improved by 30% while the reconstruction effect is guaranteed.

Key words: 3D reconstruction, segmentation, label, marching cubes algorithm