Interactive voxel surface rendering in medical applications

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 193-200

  Lee, T Y ^a   Weng, T L ^a   Lin, C H ^a   Sun, Y N ^a  

^a Visual System Laboratory   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Incremental approach; Neighboring code; Semi boundary; Three pass rotations; Visibility look up tables

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT RECOGNITION; TABLE LOOKUP;

INTERACTIVE VOXEL SURFACES; SEMI-BOUNDARY DATA STRUCTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA DISPLAY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032862375     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(99)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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