Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
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Fast volume rendering using a shear-warp factorization of the viewing transformation
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The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
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Fuzzy Switching and Automata: Theory and Applications
Fuzzy Switching and Automata: Theory and Applications
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Tensor Controlled Local Structure Enhancement of CT Images for Bone Segmentation
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MICCAI '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Computer Aided Screening System for Lung Cancer Based on Helical CT Images
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Edge Detection and Ridge Detection with Automatic Scale Selection
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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IWVF-4 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
High-Level User Interfaces for Transfer Function Design with Semantics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
LiveSync: Deformed Viewing Spheres for Knowledge-Based Navigation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Spatially-Variant Morpho-Hessian Filter: Efficient Implementation and Application
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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Building Bridges - Science, the Arts & Technology
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Renal cortex segmentation using optimal surface search with novel graph construction
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Interaction-dependent semantics for illustrative volume rendering
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This paper describes a novel approach to tissue classification using three-dimensional (3D) derivative features in the volume rendering pipeline. In conventional tissue classification for a scalar volume, tissues of interest are characterized by an opacity transfer function defined as a one-dimensional (1D) function of the original volume intensity. To overcome the limitations inherent in conventional 1D opacity functions, we propose a tissue classification method that employs a multidimensional opacity function, which is a function of the 3D derivative features calculated from a scalar volume as well as the volume intensity. Tissues of interest are characterized by explicitly defined classification rules based on 3D filter responses highlighting local structures, such as edge, sheet, line, and blob, which typically correspond to tissue boundaries, cortices, vessels, and nodules, respectively, in medical volume data. The 3D local structure filters are formulated using the gradient vector and Hessian matrix of the volume intensity function combined with isotropic Gaussian blurring. These filter responses and the original intensity define a multidimensional feature space in which multichannel tissue classification strategies are designed. The usefulness of the proposed method is demonstrated by comparisons with conventional single-channel classification using both synthesized data and clinical data acquired with CT (computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners. The improvement in image quality obtained using multichannel classification is confirmed by evaluating the contrast and contrast-to-noise ratio in the resultant volume-rendered images with variable opacity values.