An evaluation of depth enhancing perceptual cues for vascular volume visualization in neurosurgery

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 391-403

  Kersten Oertel, Marta ^a   Chen, Sean Jy Shyang ^a   Collins, D Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

angiography; chromadepth; Depth cues; fog; stereo; vascular data; vessels; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTS; NEUROSURGERY; VOLUME RENDERING;

CHROMADEPTH; DEPTH CUE; STEREO; VASCULAR DATA; VESSELS;

FOG;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897463085     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.240     Document Type: Article

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