An interactive voxel data manipulation system for surgical simulation

In this paper, we describe an interactive surgical simulation system by voxel manipulation in a virtual space. In this system, we can manipulate a 3D image on a computer screen as if we treated a 3D object in real world. In order to treat a 3D image provided as a 3D array with high level interaction and real time operation, we developed techniques such as fast representation of surface figure with polygons, a new data structure for 3D image description, interactive processing with mouse and real-time result evaluation method.<
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