Surface Rendering For Volume Data In An Ultrasound System

A method of performing surface rendering upon volume data in an ultrasound system including an ultrasound data acquisition unit, a volume data forming unit and a processing unit, comprising:

• a) at the ultrasound data acquisition unit, transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals to and from a target object to thereby acquire ultrasound data corresponding to a plurality of frames;
• b) at the volume data forming unit, forming volume data corresponding to the plurality of frames based on the ultrasound data, the volume data including a plurality of voxels;
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• c) at the processing unit, detecting edges of a region of interest (ROI) of the target object from the volume data;
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• d) at the processing unit, performing surface rendering upon voxels within the detected edges to thereby form a 3-dimensional ultrasound image.