Importance-driven feature enhancement in volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 408-417

  Viola, Ivan ^a   Kanitsar, Armin ^a   Gröller, M Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Focus+context techniques; Illustrative techniques; Level of detail techniques; View dependent visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TISSUE;

FOCUS+CONTEXT TECHNIQUES; ILLUSTRATIVE TECHNIQUES; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL TECHNIQUES; VIEW-DEPENDENT VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 22944485352     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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