Feature enhancement by volumetric unsharp masking

Visual Computer

Volumn 25, Issue 5-7, 2009, Pages 581-588

  Tao, Yubo ^a   Lin, Hai ^a   Bao, Hujun ^a   Dong, Feng ^b   Clapworthy, Gordon ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local contrast enhancement; Volume visualization; Volumetric unsharp masking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURES; FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LOCAL COLORS; LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL CONTRASTS; ON CURRENTS; RAY CASTINGS; SAMPLE POINTS; VOLUME DATA SETS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC UNSHARP MASKING;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; VOLUME RENDERING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 67349126837     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-009-0328-2     Document Type: Article

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