LOD map - A visual interface for navigating multiresolution volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1029-1036

  Wang, Chaoli ^a,b   Shen, Han Wei ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Large volume visualization; LOD map; Multiresolution rendering; Perceptual reasoning

Indexed keywords

LARGE VOLUME VISUALIZATION; LOD MAP; MULTIRESOLUTION RENDERING; PERCEPTUAL REASONING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECTS;

EID: 33845610456     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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