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CT–SPECT Analyzer - A Tool for CT and SPECT Data Fusion and Volumetric Visualization

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Data fusion and specific visualization of CT and SPECT are important for diagnosis and research purposes. Selected problems are considered in the paper and are related to the developed CT–SPECT Analyzer software. Hierarchical mapping with SPECT priority for maximum value of rays is applied in this software. Three variants of color mappings are presented. Some practical aspects related to low quality of CT are considered also. The most promising is the rainbow gradient with gamma curve adjustment.

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This study was supported by grant from budget resources for science in the years 2010–2015 as a research project No. N N402 463339 (Poland).

This work is supported by the UE EFRR ZPORR project Z/2.32/I/1.3.1/267/05 “Szczecin University of Technology – Research and Education Center of Modern Multimedia Technologies” (Poland).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan X GPU used for this research.

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Listewnik, M.H. et al. (2018). CT–SPECT Analyzer - A Tool for CT and SPECT Data Fusion and Volumetric Visualization. In: Choraś, M., Choraś, R. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 9. IP&C 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 681. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68720-9_2

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