Intrinsic Medical Imaging, LLC

Mark C McKenzie

Lee R McKenzie

Gary R Abraham

Edward A Abraham

A GPU-based cloud computing platform is used to facilitate data computations on behalf of requesting users. In this embodiment, a user of a thin client has an associated dataset that requires computation. That dataset is adapted to be delivered to a computing platform, such as the GPU-based cloud, for computation, such as to facilitate a 3D volume rendering. The result of the computation is then returned to the user. Multiple such users may be operating clients and requesting computations from the cloud in a similar manner, possibly concurrently.

Volume rendering using scalable GPU-based cloud computing

A machine-implemented display method that, with respect to a volume dataset being rendered, enables a user to navigate to any position in space and look in any direction. Preferably, the volume dataset is derived from a computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. With the described approach, the user can see details within the dataset that are not available using conventional visualization approaches. The freedom-of-motion capability allows the user to go to places (positions) within the volume rendering that are not otherwise possible using conventional 'orbit' and 'zoom' display techniques. Thus, for example, using the described approach, the display image enables a user to travel inside physical structures (e.g., a patient's heart, brain, arteries, and the like).

Avoidance-based ray tracing for volume rendering

Spatial derivative-based ray tracing for volume rendering

Visualizing a 3D volume dataset of an image at any position or orientation from within or outside

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Howell, MI, United States of America

Mark C McKenzie