A comparative study of Desktop, fishtank, and cave systems for the exploration of volume rendered confocal data sets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 551-563

  Prabhat, ^a   Forsberg, Andrew ^b   Katzourin, Michael ^b   Wharton, Kristi ^c   Slater, Mel ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Participant evaluation; Participant studies; Scientific visualization; Virtual reality; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATION TASKS; LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICIPANT EVALUATION; PARTICIPANT STUDIES;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41549104319     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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