Smooth volume rendering of labeled medical data on consumer graphics hardware

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue I, 2005, Pages 13-21

  Higuera, F Vega ^a   Hastreiter, P ^a   Naraghi, R ^a   Fahlbusch, R ^a   Greiner, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer graphics hardware; Direct volume visualization; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BOUNDARY FILTERING; CONSUMER GRAPHICS HARDWARE; DIRECT VOLUME VISUALIZATION; NEUROVASCULAR COMPRESSION SYNDROMES;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 23244438111     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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