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 …

Direct volume rendering (DVR) is of increasing diagnostic value in the analysis of data sets
captured using the latest medical imaging modalities. The deployment of DVR in everyday …

Great advancements in commodity graphics hardware have favoured graphics processing
unit (GPU)‐based volume rendering as the main adopted solution for interactive exploration …

Application-oriented papers provide an important way to invigorate and cross-pollinate the
visualization field, but the exact criteria for judging an application paper's merit remain an …

This paper presents a novel technique to efficiently compute illumination for Direct Volume
Rendering using a local approximation of ambient occlusion to integrate the intensity of …

This paper presents a procedure for virtual autopsies based on interactive 3D visualizations
of large scale, high resolution data from CT-scans of human cadavers. The procedure is …

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600/410 (58) Field of Classification Search................. 345/424, Visualization systems for …

The growing sizes of volumetric data sets pose a great challenge for interactive
visualization. In this paper, we present a feature-preserving data reduction and focus+ …

Methods and apparatus are con? gured to provide data to render (medical) images using
direct volume rendering by electronically analyzing a medical volume data set associated …

There currently exist two dominant strategies to reduce data sizes in analysis and
visualization: reducing the precision of the data, eg, through quantization, or reducing its …