Interactive point-based isosurface exploration and high-quality rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1267-1274

  Zhang, Haitao ^a,b   Kaufman, Arie ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU acceleration; Hardware acceleration; Isosurface; Isosurface extraction; Point based visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; EDGE DETECTION; INTERPOLATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

GPU ACCELERATION; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; POINT-BASED VISUALIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845631554     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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