Patent ID: 9330485
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. A computer apparatus comprising: a memory; a processor; a display; a network output connection and a rendering application loaded in the memory operable to cause the computer apparatus to: load a three-dimensional patient image data set of voxels that includes a region of tissue of interest, which forms a scene for processing by the rendering application; assign one or more of the voxels to act as a light source and determine the region of the tissue of interest, wherein the light source is assigned such that the determined region of tissue of interest is located between the light source and a view point or a view plane; render an image of the scene from a perspective of the view point or the view plane by calculating how light emitted from the assigned light source voxel(s) travels through the tissue of interest to the view point or the view plane using an optical model which includes absorption and scattering; and show the image on the display and/or store the image in the memory and/or output the image to the network output connection.