Point-based probabilistic surfaces to show surface uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 564-573

  Grigoryan, Gevorg ^a   Rheingans, Penny ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Point based graphics; Uncertainty; Visualizing surface uncertainty

Indexed keywords

POINT-BASED GRAPHICS; POLYGONAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; VISUALIZING SURFACE UNCERTAINTY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 4344595071     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.30     Document Type: Article

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