Applications of Three-Dimensional Cellular Automata to Three-Dimensional Image Display and Analysis

Abstract

A software system, called Triakis, has been developed for the Macintosh0 computer that emulates a 3D cellular automaton of up to 16M processing elements. Initially this system was used to demonstrate missile track detection for SDI. More recently it has been applied to medical image display and analysis in radiology, for quantitation of thin bones in 3D CT, and in pathology, for serial-section reconstruction in breast tumor visualization.