Topological Segmentation in Three-Dimensional Vector Fields

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 198-205

  Mahrous, Karim ^a   Bennett, Janine ^a   Scheuermann, Gerik ^b   Hamann, Bernd ^a   Joy, Kenneth I ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow fields; Segmentation; Separatrices; Streamsurfaces; Vector fields

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; SEPARATRICES; STREAMSURFACES; VECTOR FIELDS;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA REDUCTION; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 1342303340     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.1260771     Document Type: Article

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