Med vis: A real-time immersive visualization environment for the exploration of medical volumetric data

Proceedings - 5th International Conference BioMedical Visualization, Information Visualization in Medical and Biomedical Informatics, MediVis 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-70

  Shen, Rui ^a   Boulanger, Pierre ^a   Noga, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

3D TEXTURES; AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS; DATA SETS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERINGS; GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATIONS; KERNEL FUNCTIONS; MODULAR DESIGNS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENTS; RENDERING PROCESSES; TIME VISUALIZATIONS; TRANSPARENCY FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VOLUMETRIC DATUMS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 57849137509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MediVis.2008.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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