Automatic transfer function generation using contour tree controlled residue flow model and color harmonics

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1481-1488

  Zhou, Jianlong ^a,b   Takatsuka, Masahiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contour Tree; Harmonic Color; Residue Flow; Transfer Function; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

COLOR DIFFERENCE; COLOR SELECTION; CONTOUR TREES; DARCY'S LAW; DATA FEATURE; DATA SETS; FLOW MODEL; FUNCTION GENERATION; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; HARMONIC COLOR; PERCEPTUAL COLOR SPACE; PRACTICAL USE; RESIDUE FLOW; SCALAR VALUES; TRANSFER FUNCTION SPECIFICATION; VISUAL INDICES; VOLUMETRIC DATA; VOLUMETRIC DATA VISUALIZATION;

COLOR; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; OPACITY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FOOT; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FOOT; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 70350666813     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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