A VR ENHANCED COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM for 3D CONFOCAL MICROSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING and VISUALIZATION

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-250

  Guan, Y Q ^a   Cai, Y Y ^a   Opas, M ^b   Xiong, Z W ^c,d   Lee, Y T ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Confocal imaging; database; image processing; virtual reality; volume visualization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; CONFOCAL IMAGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 39449119658     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467806002215     Document Type: Article

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