Volume MLS ray casting

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1372-1379

  Ledergerber, Christian ^a   Guennebaud, Gaël ^b   Meyer, Miriah ^a   Bächer, Moritz ^a   Pfister, Hanspeter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive integration; Moving least squares reconstruction; Unstructured grids; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE; ADAPTIVE; ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATIONS; GRAPHICS HARDWARES; IRREGULAR GRIDS; ISOSURFACES; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; MOVING LEAST SQUARES RECONSTRUCTION; RAY CASTING ALGORITHMS; RAY-CASTING; RESULTING SYSTEMS; SCALAR DATUM; SCATTERED DATUM; SHADING EFFECTS; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS; VOLUME DATUM; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CURVE FITTING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; GEODESY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESTORATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54949127496     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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