Stytz M R, Frieder O
Air Force Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433.
Crit Rev Biomed Eng. 1991;19(1):1-45.
This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations. The survey is designed to provide a snapshot overview of the present state of computer architectures for 3D medical imaging. The basic volume manipulation, object segmentation, and graphics operations required of a 3D medical imaging machine are described and sample algorithms are presented. The architecture and 3D imaging algorithms employed in 11 machines which render medical images are assessed. The performance of the machines is compared across several dimensions, including image resolution, elapsed time to form an image, imaging algorithms employed in the machine, and the degree of parallelism employed in the architecture. The innovation in each machine, whether architectural or algorithmic, is described in detail. General trends for future developments in this field are delineated and an extensive bibliography is provided.
本综述回顾了三维（3D）医学成像机器和3D医学成像操作。该综述旨在提供3D医学成像计算机架构现状的简要概述。描述了3D医学成像机器所需的基本体素操作、对象分割和图形操作，并给出了示例算法。评估了11台用于生成医学图像的机器所采用的架构和3D成像算法。从几个维度对这些机器的性能进行了比较，包括图像分辨率、成像耗时、机器所采用的成像算法以及架构中采用的并行度。详细描述了每台机器在架构或算法方面的创新之处。勾勒了该领域未来发展的总体趋势，并提供了一份详尽的参考文献目录。
