Interactive diffusion-based smoothing and segmentation of volumetric datasets on graphics hardware

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 270-274

  Beyer, Johanna ^a,c   Langer, C ^a   Fritz, L ^a   Hadwiger, M ^a   Wolfsberger, S ^b   Buhler K ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Direct volume rendering; GPU; Volume segmentation; Volume smoothing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUSTRIA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34249322009     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/9042     Document Type: Article

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