Visualization of fibrous and thread-like data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1165-1172

  Melek, Zeki ^a,b   Mayerich, David ^a,b   Yuksel, Cem ^b   Keyser, John ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; GPU acceleration; Neuron visualization; Orientation filtering

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; GPU ACCELERATION; NEURON VISUALIZATION; ORIENTATION FILTERING;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TISSUE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVE NET; NEURONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845642648     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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