Volume visualization based on statistical transfer-function spaces

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, PacificVis 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-24

  Haidacher, Martin ^a   Patel, Daniel ^b   Bruckner, Stefan ^a   Kanitsar, Armin ^c   Gröller, M Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CHRISTIAN MICHELSEN RESEARCH AS   (Norway)

^c AGFA HealthCare   (Austria)

Author keywords

Classification; Noisy data; Shading; Statistics; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DATA VALUES; DESIGN TRANSFER; FUNCTION SPACES; MEAN VALUES; NOISY DATA; RENDERING PROCESS; SAMPLE POINT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; VISUAL APPEARANCE; VOLUME DATA SETS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VISUALIZATION;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951682282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2010.5429615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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