Interactive volume exploration for feature detection and quantification in industrial CT data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1507-1514

  Hadwiger, Markus ^a   Fritz, Laura ^a   Rezk Salama, Christof ^b   Höllt, Thomas ^a   Geier, Georg ^c   Pabel, Thomas ^c  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c Austrian Foundry Research Institute   (Austria)

Author keywords

Multi dimensional transfer functions; Non destructive testing; Region growing; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DEFECT DENSITY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FUNCTIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECIFICATIONS; VOLUME RENDERING;

AS-CAST; DEFECT DETECTIONS; FEATURE DETECTIONS; FEATURE SIZES; INDUSTRIAL CT; INTERACTIVE; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATIONS; METAL PARTS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NOVEL METHODS; PARAMETER SPACES; PRE-PROCESSING; REGION GROWING; SEED POINTS; TRANSFER FUNCTION SPECIFICATIONS; TUNING PARAMETERS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDUSTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 54949123428     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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