Application of the computer graphics technology for the visualization of lungs

Abstract

Currently, the field of application of computer graphics is becoming wider. Over the past half century, the computer graphics technology has come a long way from a nascent field to a technology without which not a single area in the modern world can do. The rapid spread has led to research aimed at improving the process of creating graphic images. Computer graphics found application in medicine in three-dimensional visualization of computed tomography in the middle of the second half of the twentieth century. Since then, it has become an important part of almost every aspect of the field, from teaching anatomy to helping with diagnosis. However, the specificity of this area and a number of requirements that it imposes have led to the fact that the number of technologies and computer graphics methods used is limited. But despite the limited scope of application, there are still a large number of different implementations of methods used in medicine. Therefore, when developing a new application in the medical field that requires an imaging module, software developers have difficulty choosing the most preferable method to implement. This article analyzes the possibilities of using computer graphics technologies in the field of medicine using the example of lung imaging in the conditions of limited data. Also, based on the analysis, a classification of visualization methods is given and the most preferred methods for a particular technology are justified