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Figure 1

  Figure 1. Flow Chart for Creation of Solid Volume Meshes Based on 2D Medical Images
 

Figure 2

  Figure 2. Manual Segmentation of Color Cryosections from the Visible Male
 

Figure 3

  Figure 3. Each Boundary Line Segment is Assigned Two Material IDs Corresponding to Its Two Adjacent Materials, Ex: Fat=900, Muscle=888, Femur Bone=485
 

Figure 4

  Figure 4. Segmented Image of the Original Cryosection Presented in Figure 2
 

Figure 5

  Figure 5. Illustration of Marching Cube Algorithm
 

Figure 6

  Figure 6. Surface Mesh of Femur Created from Segmented Images
 

Figure 7

  Figure 7. Smoothed Femur Surface Mesh
 

Figure 8

  Figure 8. Smoothed and Decimated Femur Surface Mesh
 

Figure 9

  Figure 9. Final Femur Surface Mesh
 

Figure 10

  Figure 10. Volume Mesh of Femur
 

Figure 11

  Figure 11. Surface Mesh of Tissues at Kidney Area
 

Figure 12

  Figure 12. Volume Mesh of Tissues at Kidney Area
 

Figure 13

  Figure 13. Surface and Volume Meshes of Left Kidney
 

Figure 14

  Figure 14. Surface and Volume Meshes of Descending Colon
 
 
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