RGVis: Region growing based techniques for volume visualization

Proceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 355-363

  Huang, Runzhen ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Computer science; Data mining; Data visualization; Feature extraction; Hardware; Medical simulation; Rendering (computer graphics); Scattering; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA MINING; DATA VISUALIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SCATTERING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

BOUNDARY SURFACES; INTERACTIVE DATA EXPLORATION; ITERATIVE TRIAL AND ERROR; MEDICAL SIMULATIONS; POLYGONAL REPRESENTATION; SURFACE INFORMATION; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84867656341     PISSN: 15504085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCGA.2003.1238277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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