%0 Book Section %B Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA 2001, Pula, Croatia %D 2001 %T Virtual Dissection of the Colon Based on Helical CT Data - Can It Be Done? %A Erich Sorantin %A Emese Balogh %A Anna Vilanova Bartroli %A Kálmán Palágyi %A László Gábor Nyúl %E Sven Lončarić %E Hrvoje Babic %X Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer;and colonic polyps are known precursors of that particular cancer. Virtual dissection refers to a display technique for polyp detection based on helical CT data, where the colon is dissected and flattened as on the pathologist's table. The approach and image processing as well as the early experience are described in this paper. %B Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA 2001, Pula, Croatia %I University of Zagreb %C Zagreb %P 224 - 229 %8 2001/// %G eng