Structuring feature space: A non-parametric method for volumetric transfer function generation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1473-1480

  MacIejewski, Ross ^a   Woo, Insoo ^a   Chen, Wei ^b   Ebert, David S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

kernel density estimation; temporal volume rendering; transfer function design; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

2-D HISTOGRAMS; ACROSS TIME; AREA OF INTEREST; DATA VALUES; DENSITY ESTIMATION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FEATURE SPACE; FUNCTION GENERATION; GIVEN FEATURES; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LEAD USERS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; MULTIVARIATE DATA; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; TEMPORAL VOLUME RENDERING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME STEP; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) HISTOGRAM; VOLUMETRIC DATA; VOLUMETRIC RENDERING;

DESIGN; ESTIMATION; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOOLS; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70350666812     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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