Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Generation of transfer functions with stochastic search techniques
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
Design galleries: a general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
Semi-automatic generation of transfer functions for direct volume rendering
VVS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The Transfer Function Bake-Off
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A rule-based tool for assisting colormap selection
VIS '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95
Statistical computation of salient iso-values
VISSYM '02 Proceedings of the symposium on Data Visualisation 2002
Interactive spectral volume rendering
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
Transfer functions on a logarithmic scale for volume rendering
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
Visibility Culling Using Plenoptic Opacity Functions for Large Volume Visualization
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 (VIS'03)
Visualization of Boundaries in Volumetric Data Sets Using LH Histograms
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
On Histograms and Isosurface Statistics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Visualization in Medicine: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Visualization in Medicine: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Visualization and exploration of time-varying medical image data sets
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Volume visualization and exploration through flexible transfer function design
Computers and Graphics
Volume visualization and exploration through flexible transfer function design
Computers and Graphics
Flexible isosurfaces: Simplifying and displaying scalar topology using the contour tree
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
Gradient magnitude vs. feature size: comparing 2D histograms for transfer function specification
Proceedings of the 2009 Computer Graphics International Conference
Moment based transfer function design for volume rendering
ICCSA'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Computational science and its applications: PartIII
General adaptive transfer functions design for volume rendering by using neural networks
ICONIP'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part II
EUROVIS'06 Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
A gradient-based comparison measure for visual analysis of multifield data
EuroVis'11 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
Evaluating isosurfaces with level-set-based information maps
EuroVis '13 Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization
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Automatic detection of meaningful isosurfaces is important for producing informative visualizations of volume data, especially when no information about the data origin and imaging protocol is available. We propose a computationally efficient method for the automated detection of intensity transitions in volume data. In this approach, the dominant transitions correspond to clear maxima in cumulative Laplacian-weighted gray value histograms. Only one pass through the data volume is required to compute the histogram. Several other features which may be useful for exploration of data of unknown origin can be efficiently computed in a similar manner, e.g. enclosed volume, isosurface area, mean gradient.The detected intensity transitions can be used for setting of visualization parameters for surface rendering, as well as for direct volume rendering of 3-D datasets. When using surface rendering, the detected dominant intensity transition values correspond to the optimal surface isovalues for extraction of boundaries of the objects of interest. In direct volume rendering, such transitions are important for generation of the transfer functions, which are used to assign visualization properties to data voxels and determine the appearance of the rendered image. The proposed method is illustrated by examples with synthetic data as well as real biomedical datasets.