MIP-guided vascular image visualization with multi-dimensional transfer function

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4035 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 372-384

  Chan, Ming Yuen ^a   Wu, Yingcai ^a   Qu, Huamin ^a   Chung, Albert C S ^a   Wong, Wilbur C K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERPOLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

ANGIOGRAMS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING (DVR); MIP-GUIDED METHOD; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33746255279     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11784203_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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