Full body virtual autopsies using a state-of-the-art volume rendering pipeline

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 869-876

  Ljung, Patric ^a,b   Winskog, Calle ^c   Persson, Anders ^b   Lundström, Claes ^a,b   Ynnerman, Anders ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c National Board of Forensic Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autopsies; Forensics; Large scale data; Medical visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSIES; FORENSICS; LARGE SCALE DATA; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33845666815     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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