Visual exploration of nasal airflow

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1407-1414

  Zachow, Stefan ^a   Muigg, Philipp ^c,d   Hildebrandt, Thomas ^b   Doleisch, Helmut ^d   Hege, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Clinic Birkenwerder   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d SimVis GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

exploratory data analysis; Flow visualization; interactive visual analysis of scientific data; time dependent data

Indexed keywords

BREATHING CYCLE; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; FLOW RESISTANCE; FUNCTIONAL POINTS; HUMAN RESPIRATORY TRACT; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINKED VIEWS; ON FLOW; PARALLEL COORDINATES; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; RHINOMANOMETRY; SCALABLE IMPLEMENTATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; TIME SERIES VISUALIZATION; TIME VARYING; TIME-DEPENDENT DATA; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL INSPECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME SERIES; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG VENTILATION; METHODOLOGY; NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NOSE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350681249     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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