Computational 3D Ultrasound Volumetric Rendering; an Object Oriented Open-Sources Approach

On account of the advanced technology in recent years, the increasing demand for an effective medical imaging system has addressed its significance in diagnosis especially in the development of threedimensional medical image reconstruction. Of the various software that have been investigated, none of them show efficiency in terms of cost and computational performance. Owing to this fact, a method of 3D reconstruction using VTK has been proposed in this paper. The 3D reconstruction has been achieved through a series of processes includes DICOM sources manipulation, gray interpolations, ray casting and volume rendering. The result obtained indicates that VTK is an efficient open source library in performing 3D reconstruction especially in the matter of volume rendering. The method proposed has shown its future utilities in clinical application especially in CT, MRI and Ultrasound image volume rendering in providing a more informative view in order to assist the personnel in hospital to perform significant diagnosis. Key-Words: three dimensional, reconstruction, VTK, volume, rendering, medical imaging