Dependent Rendering: Visualizing Multiple Properties of an Object

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Löbbert;Steffen Märkle

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISMDA '02 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, a framework for visualizing multiple properties of an object by dependent rendering of data sets of two different properties is presented. The main goal of this framework is to interactively explore a data set by showing a combined 3D image of both properties. The combined rendering reveals dependencies between these properties and allows for both a good overview and a precise location of features. The framework is not constrained to any special domain of data sets and allows for a vast variety of combinations of properties. It is well suited for functional imaging in medicine and biology where one property is given by the anatomy of the object and another by the functional information. One of the properties of the object is defined as a spatial reference for the other - the dependent - property. Both properties are rendered, with the dependent property in dependence of the reference property. For the reference property, volume rendering is used, for the dependent property a variety of rendering techniques can be applied. The resulting combined rendering image is a projection of both properties at the same time.