Quality Enhancement of Direct Volume Rendered Images

6th Eurographics / IEEE VGTC International Symposium on Volume Graphics, VG@Eurographics 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-32

  Chan, Ming Yuen ^a   Wu, Yingcai ^a   Qu, Huamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); VOLUME RENDERING;

COLOUR CONTRAST; EVALUATION RESULTS; IMAGE DOMAIN; IMAGE QUALITY MEASUREMENT; IMAGE-BASED; PARAMETERS ADJUSTMENT; QUALITY ENHANCEMENT; RENDERED IMAGES; VOLUME DATA; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 85006881388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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