This article establishes a comprehensive review of all the different methods proposed by the
literature concerning augmented reality in intra-abdominal minimally invasive surgery (also …

A central topic in scientific visualization is the transfer function (TF) for volume rendering.
The TF serves a fundamental role in translating scalar and multivariate data into color and …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Despite rapid developments in the research areas of medical imaging, medical image
processing, and robotics, the use of computer assistance in surgical routine is still limited to …

We present a technique to synthesize and analyze volume-rendered images using
generative models. We use the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework to …

Direct volume rendering is an important tool for visualizing complex data sets. However, in
the process of generating 2D images from 3D data, information is lost in the form of …

Direct Volume Rendering has proved to be an effective visualization method for medical
data sets and has reached wide-spread clinical use. The diagnostic exploration, in essence …

With the increasing availability of high-resolution isotropic three-or four-dimensional medical
datasets from sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and …

Volume raycasting techniques are important for both visual arts and visualization. They
allow an efficient generation of visual effects and the visualization of scientific data obtained …

In this paper, we propose a volume visualization system that accepts direct manipulation
through a sketch-based What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) approach. Similar to the …