Semiautomatic transfer function initialization for abdominal visualization using self-generating hierarchical radial basis function networks

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-409

  Selver, M Alper ^a   Güzeli, Cüneyt ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hierarchical radial basis function network; Transfer functions; Volume histogram stack; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; CT/MR DATUM; ENHANCED RENDERINGS; GAUSSIAN; HIERARCHICAL DESIGNS; HIERARCHICAL RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK; IMAGE SERIES; INTERACTIVE DATA EXPLORATIONS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGES; OPTICAL PARAMETERS; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; SEARCH SPACES; SEMI-AUTOMATIC METHODS; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; TRADE OFFS; VOLUME HISTOGRAM STACK;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 62949168925     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.198     Document Type: Article

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