CAVASS: A computer assisted visualization and analysis software system - Visualization aspects

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Grevera, George ^a,b   Udupa, Jayaram ^b   Odhner, Dewey ^b   Zhuge, Ying ^b   Souza, Andre ^b   Iwanaga, Tad ^b   Mishra, Shipra ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Software systems; Surface rendering; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SURFACE RENDERING; VISUALIZATION ASPECTS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

3D IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS (CAVA); SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL PACKAGES;

EID: 35048886554     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.711170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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