Efficient volume exploration using the gaussian mixture model

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1560-1573

  Wang, Yunhai ^a   Chen, Wei ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a   Dong, Tingxing ^c   Shan, Guihua ^a   Chi, Xuebin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; temporal coherence.; time varying data; Volume classification; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FEATURE SEPARATION; FEATURE SPACE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIANS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; INCREMENTAL ALGORITHM; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; POTENTIAL FEATURES; PRE-INTEGRATED VOLUME RENDERING; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TIME INTERVAL; TIME STEP; TIME-VARYING DATA; TIME-VARYING DATA SETS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR PROCESS; VOLUME CLASSIFICATION; VOLUME DATA; VOLUMETRIC STRUCTURES;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 80052614680     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.97     Document Type: Article

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