High-performance and real-time volume rendering in CUDA

Proceedings of the 2009 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Yue ^a   Cui, Xiaoyu ^a   Cheng, Ying ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Component; CUDA; GPU; Ray casting; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; LEARNING CURVES; MEDICAL IMAGES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; RAY CASTING; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; STANDARD PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; VOLUME RAY CASTING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE QUALITY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 74049094819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2009.5304981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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