Method and system for rendering a medical image

A system for rendering a medical image, comprising:

• means for providing a 3D voxel dataset of a heart, the 3D voxel dataset being generated from one of a Computer Tomography (CT) data of the heart and a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data of the heart such that the 3D voxel data set is a spatial representation of the heart;
• generating means for generating a 3D vector representation of a selected part of the 3D voxel dataset of the heart;
• blending means for blending the 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation to combine, in a common buffer, portions of the 3D voxel dataset that represent the selected part of the heart with the 3D vector representation replacing the portions of the 3D voxel dataset that represent the selected part of the heart with the 3D vector representation;
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• rendering means for rendering the medical image, wherein said rendering is based on the blended 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation, such that the selected part of the heart is shown as the 3D vector representation and another portion of the heart is shown as the 3D voxel representation.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed on a computer device, configures the computer device to perforin a method comprising:

• providing a 3D voxel dataset of a heart, the 3D voxel dataset being generated from one of a Computer Tomography (CT) data of the heart and a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data of the heart such that the 3D voxel data set is a spatial representation of the heart;
• generating a 3D vector representation of a selected part of the 3D voxel dataset of the heart;
• blending the 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation to combine, in a common buffer, portions of the 3D voxel dataset that represent the selected part of the heart with the 3D vector representation replacing the portions of the 3D voxel dataset that represent the selected part of the heart with the 3D vector representation;
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• rendering the medical image, wherein said rendering is based on the blended 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation, such that the selected part of the heart is shown as the 3D vector representation and another portion of the heart is shown as the 3D voxel representation.