Size-based transfer functions: A new volume exploration technique

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1380-1387

  Correa, Carlos D ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU techniques; Interactive visualization; Scale space; Transfer functions; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGES; COMPLEX DATUM; CONTINUOUS SCALES; DATA SETS; DETECTION FILTERS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; GPU TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE RATES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION; LOCAL FEATURES; LOCAL SCALES; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTIONS; SCALAR VALUES; SCALE SPACE; VOLUME DATUM;

DATA VISUALIZATION; FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

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: 54949150591     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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