Real-time stereographic rendering and display of medical images with programmable GPUs

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-123

  Wang, Xiao Hui ^a   Good, Walter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Display; Image rendering; Programmable graphics processing units; Real time; Stereoscopic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D DATASETS; CT IMAGES; PROGRAMMABLE GPUS; STEREOGRAPHIC DISPLAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREORADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 37549035348     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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