Interactive volume segmentation with the PAVLOV architecture

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, PVGS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 61-68

  Kreeger, Kevin ^a   Kaufmany, Arie ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

2D Mesh Array; Feature Extraction; Floodfill; Segmentation; SIMD; Volume Processing; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MESH GENERATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

2D MESHES; FLOODFILL; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE VISUAL FEEDBACKS; PARAMETER ADJUSTMENTS; SIMD; VOLUME PROCESSING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85029382223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/328712.319338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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