Colonoscopy simulation

Wei Hong; Jianning Wang; Feng Qiu; Arie Kaufman; Joseph Anderson M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.709665

29 March 2007 Colonoscopy simulation

Wei Hong, Jianning Wang, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman, Joseph Anderson M.D.

Proceedings Volume 6511, Medical Imaging 2007: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 65110R (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709665
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Effective colonoscopic screening for polyps with optical or virtual means requires adequate visualization of the entire colon surface. The purpose of this study is to investigate by simulation the degree of colon surface coverage during a routine optical colonoscopy (OC). To simulate OC, a generic wide angle and fisheye camera model is used to calibrate the fisheye lens of an Olympus endoscope with a field of view of 140 degrees. Then, the colonoscopy procedure is simulated using volume rendering fly-through along the hugging corner path in the retrograde direction. This shortest path is computed using the segmented and cleansed colon CT datasets. A large number of virtual fisheye cameras are placed along the shortest path to simulate the OC. At each camera position, a discrete volumetric ray-casting method is used to determine which triangles can be seen from the camera. Then, the percentage of the covered colon surface of the OC simulation is computed. Surface coverage at this point may serve as a rough estimate of readily visualized mucosa in a standard OC examination. We also compute the percentage of the covered colon surface for the virtual colonoscopy (VC) by placing virtual pinhole cameras on the central path of the colon and flying in only the antegrade direction as well as flying in both antegrade and retrograde directions. Our simulation study reveals that about 23% of the colon surface is missed in the standard OC examination and about 9% of the colon surface is missed in the VC examination when navigating in both directions.

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Wei Hong, Jianning Wang, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman, and Joseph Anderson M.D. "Colonoscopy simulation", Proc. SPIE 6511, Medical Imaging 2007: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, 65110R (29 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709665

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