Interactive transfer function design based on editing direct volume rendered images

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1027-1040

  Wu, Yingcai ^a,b   Qu, Huamin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Haïti)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Animation; Direct volume rendering; Focus+context; Image editing; Intuitive user interface; Morphing; Transfer function design

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; IMAGE EDITING; INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE; MORPHING; TRANSFER FUNCTION DESIGN;

ANIMATION; DATA REDUCTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; 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; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 34547466629     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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