Edge aware anisotropic diffusion for 3D scalar data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1376-1385

  Hosssain, Zahid ^a   Möller, Torsten ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; De noising; PDE; Principle Curvatures; Scale Space

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; DE-NOISING; PDE; PRINCIPLE CURVATURES; SCALE-SPACE;

DIFFUSION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHEEP; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SHEEP; TOOTH;

EID: 78149239589     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.147     Document Type: Article

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