Visualization of boundaries in volumetric data sets using LH histograms

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-217

  Šereda, Petr ^a   Bartrolí, Anna Vilanova ^a   Serlie, Iwo W O ^b   Gerritsen, Frans A ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; Multidimensional transfer functions; Region growing; Transfer functions; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NOISE GENERATORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; REGION GROWING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 31344480707     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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