Fuzzy Maximum Intensity Projection (Fmip) In Medical Imaging

Yutaka Hata, Michiharu Terao, Syoji Kobashi, Shigeo Kanazawa*, Seturo Imawaki*, Makoto Ishikawa*
*)Ishikawa Hospital

Proceedings of Third International Forum on Multimedia & Image Processing
IFMIP052, (2002)

This paper proposes a new three-dimensional rendering method which projects the higher membership degrees of target region of interest as the brighter values in the 3D image set, such as MRI and CT images. Typical maximum intensity projection (MIP) method projects the maximum intensity values in the 3D data set. The medical scanners attempt to produce the higher degree for the target ROI in the image. However, since several artifacts are involved in the output images, this fact keeps us from understanding the shape and state of the ROI. The proposed new method called fuzzy maximum intensity projection (FMIP) projects the membership degree of every voxel in the 3D data set. This membership degree can be given in a fuzzification algorithm.