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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
The present embodiments relate to cinematic volume renderings and/or volumetric Monte-Carlo path tracing. By way of introduction, the present embodiments described below include apparatuses and methods for cinematic rendering of unfolded three-dimensional volumes. An image analysis algorithm is performed on an input volume to extract one or more structures of interest, such as a rib centerline, a liver surface or another three-dimensional volume. Based on the extracted three-dimensional structure(s), a geometric transformation is computed to generate an unfolded three-dimensional volume of the structure(s). Cinematic volume rendering techniques are used to generate a rendered image from the unfolded three-dimensional volume.