Illustrative context-preserving exploration of volume data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1559-1569

  Bruckner, Stefan ^a,b   Grimm, Sören ^a,c   Kanitsar, Armin ^a,d   Gröller, M Eduard ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Biotronics 3D Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d Tiani Medgraph AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Focus+context techniques; Illustrative visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

CLIPPING TECHNIQUES; ILLUSTRATIVE VISUALIZATION; INTUITIVE USER CONTROL; VOLUME RENDERING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

DATA MINING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33749536880     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.96     Document Type: Article

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