Abstract
Three dimensional digital model of a representative human kidney is needed for a surgical simulator that is capable of simulating a laparoscopic surgery involving kidney. Buying a three dimensional computer model of a representative human kidney, or reconstructing a human kidney from an image sequence using commercial software, both involve (sometimes significant amount of) money. In this paper, author has shown that one can obtain a three dimensional surface model of human kidney by making use of images from the Visible Human Data Set and a few free software packages (ImageJ, ITK-SNAP, and MeshLab in particular). Images from the Visible Human Data Set, and the software packages used here, both do not cost anything. Hence, the practice of extracting the geometry of a representative human kidney for free, as illustrated in the present work, could be a free alternative to the use of expensive commercial software or to the purchase of a digital model.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 115-126 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| Publication status | Published - 01-2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Materials Science(all)
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering