In the last two decades, there has been substantial development in the diagnostic
possibilities for examining the small intestine. Compared with computerized tomography …

Curve-skeletons are thinned 1D representations of 3D objects useful for many visualization
tasks including virtual navigation, reduced-model formulation, visualization improvement …

Given a shape, a skeleton is a thin centered structure which jointly describes the topology
and the geometry of the shape. Skeletons provide an alternative to classical boundary or …

A large variety of techniques has been developed to visualize vascular structures. These
techniques differ in the necessary preprocessing effort, in the computational effort to create …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States, and finding indicators of the
disease at an early stage is critical for treatment and prevention. In this paper we evaluate …

This paper presents importance-driven feature enhancement as a technique for the
automatic generation of cut-away and ghosted views out of volumetric data. The presented …

Exploded views are an illustration technique where an object is partitioned into several
segments. These segments are displaced to reveal otherwise hidden detail. In this paper we …

It has long been recognized that transfer function setup for Direct Volume Rendering (DVR)
is crucial to its usability. However, the task of finding an appropriate transfer function is …

Glyph-based visualization is an effective tool for depicting multivariate information. Since
sorting is one of the most common analytical tasks performed on individual attributes of a …