WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2106-2114

  Guo, Hanqi ^a,b   Mao, Ningyu ^a   Yuan, Xiaoru ^a,b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature space; Human computer interaction; Sketching input; Transfer functions; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; DIRECT MANIPULATION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; FEATURE MATCHING; FEATURE SPACE; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; HUMAN-COMPUTER; IMAGE SPACE; INTERACTIVITY; SKETCHING INPUT; SPECIAL ALGORITHMS; VOLUME DATA; VOLUME IMAGE; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; WYSIWYG;

IMAGE MATCHING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80855132034     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.261     Document Type: Article

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