Perception-based transparency optimization for direct volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1283-1290

  Chan, Ming Yuen ^a   Wu, Yingcai ^a   Mak, Wai Ho ^a   Chen, Wei ^b   Qu, Huamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; image enhancement; layer perception

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRECTION; DATA SETS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; LAYER PERCEPTION; LAYERED STRUCTURES; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL FACTORS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; RENDERED IMAGES; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; USER INTERACTION; USER REQUIREMENTS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

OPTIMIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70350627696     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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