Interactive visualization of volumetric data with WebGL in real-time

Proceedings - 16th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 137-145

  Congote, John ^a   Segura, Alvaro ^b   Kabongo, Luis ^b   Moreno, Aitor ^b   Posada, Jorge ^b   Ruiz, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^b VICOMTECH   (Spain)

Author keywords

direct volume rendering; medical imaging; ray casting; real time visualization; weather radar volume; WebGL

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; RAY CASTING; REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION; WEATHER RADARS; WEBGL;

DATA VISUALIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; SCALABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80052320345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2010425.2010449     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (28)

1. BEHR, J., AND ALEXA, M. 2001. Volume visualization in vrml. In Proceedings of the sixth international conference on 3D Web technology, ACM New York, NY, USA, 23-27.
2. BEHR, J., ESCHLER, P., JUNG, Y., AND ZÖLLNER, M. 2009. X3dom: a dom-based html5/x3d integration model. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, ACM, 127-135.
3. BLAZONA, B., AND MIHAJLOVIC, Z. 2007. Visualization service based on web services. Journal of Computing and Information Technology 15, 4, 339.
4. CONGOTE, J., MORENO, A., BARANDIARAN, I., BARANDIARAN, J., AND RUIZ, O. 2010. Extending marching cubes with adaptative methods to obtain more accurate iso-surfaces. In Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, January, 35-44.
5. FOGAL, T., AND KRUGER, J. 2010. Tuvok, an Architecture for Large Scale Volume Rendering. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, M. Dogget, S. Laine, and W. Hunt, Eds., 57-66.
6. GOENETXEA, J., MORENO, A., UNZUETA, L., GALDÓS, A., AND SEGURA, A. 2010. Interactive and stereoscopic hybrid 3d viewer of radar data with gesture recognition. In Romay et al. [Romay et al. 2010], 213-220.
7. HADWIGER, M., LJUNG, P., SALAMA, C. R., AND ROPINSKI, T. 2009. Advanced illumination techniques for gpu-based volume raycasting. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses, ACM, 1-166.
8. HARTLEY, R., AND ZISSERMAN, A. 2003. Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, second ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
9. HIBBARD, W., AND SANTEK, D. 1989. Interactivity is the key. In Proceedings of the 1989 Chapel Hill workshop on Volume visualization, ACM, New York, NY, USA, VVS '89, 39-43.
10. JOHN, N., ARATOW, M., COUCH, J., EVESTEDT, D., HUDSON, A., POLYS, N., PUK, R., RAY, A., VICTOR, K., AND WANG, Q. 2008. MedX3D: Standards enabled desktop medical 3D. Studies in health technology and informatics 132, 189.
11. JOHN, N. W. 2007. The impact of web3d technologies on medical education and training. Computers and Education 49, 1, 19-31. Web3D Technologies in Learning, Education and Training.
12. KABONGO, L., MACA, I., AND PALOC, C. 2009. Development of a commercial cross-platform dicom viewer based on open source software. In International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery; CARS 2009 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress and Exhibition, Springer, Berlin, Germany, P. H. U. Lemke, P. P. K. Inamura, P. P. K. Doi, P. P. M. W. Vannier, P. P. A. G. Farman, and D. PhD, Eds., vol. 4, International Foundation of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, S29-S30.
13. KRUGER, J., AND WESTERMANN, R. 2003. Acceleration techniques for gpu-based volume rendering. In VIS '03: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 (VIS'03), IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 38.
14. LACROUTE, P., AND LEVOY, M. 1994. Fast volume rendering using a shear-warp factorization of the viewing transformation. In Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '94, 451-458.
15. LEVOY, M. 1988. Display of surfaces from volume data. IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl. 8, 3, 29-37.
16. MAHMOUDI, S. E., AKHONDI-ASL, A., RAHMANI, R., FAGHIHROOHI, S., TAIMOURI, V., SABOURI, A., AND SOLTANIAN-ZADEH, H. 2009. Web-based interactive 2d/3d medical image processing and visualization software. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine In Press, Corrected Proof, -.
17. MARQUES, R., SANTOS, L. P., LEŠKOVSKYˇ, P., AND PALOC, C. 2009. Gpu ray casting. In 17 Encontro Português de Computaçao Gráfica, En Anexo, Covilha, Portugal, A. Coelho, A. P. Cláudio, F. Silva, and A. Gomes, Eds., 83-91.
18. MARRIN, C. 2011. WebGL Specification. Khronos WebGL Working Group.
19. MEISSNER, M., HUANG, J., BARTZ, D., MUELLER, K., AND CRAWFIS, R. 2000. A practical evaluation of popular volume rendering algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization, Citeseer, 81-90.
20. MEYER-SPRADOW, J., ROPINSKI, T., MENSMANN, J., AND HINRICHS, K. H. 2009. Voreen: A rapid-prototyping environment for ray-casting-based volume visualizations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Applications Department) 29, 6 (Nov./Dec.), 6-13.
21. PHONG, B. T. 1975. Illumination for computer generated pictures. Commun. ACM 18, 6, 311-317.
22. POLIAKOV, A. V., ALBRIGHT, E., HINSHAW, K. P., CORINA, D. P., OJEMANN, G., MARTIN, R. F., AND BRINKLEY, J. F. 2005. Server-based approach to web visualization of integrated three-dimensional brain imaging data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 12, 2, 140-151.
23. RILEY, K., SONG, Y., KRAUS, M., EBERT, D. S., AND LEVIT, J. J. 2006. Visualization of structured nonuniform grids. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 26, 46-55.
24. ROMAY, M. G., CORCHADO, E., AND GARCÍA-SEBASTIÁN, M. T., Eds. 2010. Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, 5th International Conference, HAIS 2010, San Sebastián, Spain, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings, Part I, vol. 6076 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
25. SEGURA, Á., MORENO, A., GARCÍA, I., AGINAKO, N., LABAYEN, M., POSADA, J., ARANDA, J. A., AND ANDOIN, R. G. D. 2009. Visual processing of geographic and environmental information in the basque country: Two basque case studies. In GeoSpatial Visual Analytics, R. D. Amicis, R. Stojanovic, and G. Conti, Eds., NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, October, 199-208.
26. SUNDARAM, V., ZHAO, L., SONG, C., BENES, B., VEERAMACHENENI, R., AND KRISTOF, P. 2008. Real-time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization through Multi-layer Interfaces. In Grid Computing Environments Workshop, 2008. GCE'08, 1-10.
27. WESTOVER, L. A. 1991. Splatting: a parallel, feed-forward volume rendering algorithm. PhD thesis, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. UMI Order No. GAX92-08005.
28. YOO, S., KEY, J., CHOI, K., AND JO, J. 2005. Web-based Hybrid Visualization of Medical Images. Lecture notes in computer science 3568, 376.