Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D computed tomography imaging

Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D computed tomography imaging

Volume rendering (VR) represents today's standard three-dimensional (3-D) image post-processing technique, and often is used to visualize complex anatomical information. Recently, a novel 3-D technique for post-processing of computed tomography (CT) image data has been introduced, which is called cinematic rendering (CR). The objective of this review is to illustrate the image appearance and po...

Segmentation Assisted Object Distinction for Direct Volume Rendering

Ray Casting is a direct volume rendering technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. It has vital applications in medical and biological imaging. Nevertheless, it is inherently open to cluttered classification results. It suffers from overlapping transfer function values and lacks a sufficiently powerful voxel parsing mechanism for object distinction. In this work, we are proposing an ...

Incremental volume reconstruction and rendering for 3D ultrasound imaging

In this paper, we present approaches toward an interactive visualization of a real time input, applied to 3D ! #"%$& ' ( )+*, .0/ '13254& .6 5 ! .0 %* 7 .8 9 :+ 7 ; < = ( 7 > <.? % @ ( 7 7 < A3 7 7 ; 7 < 7 7 ; < ; 7 < 7 7 7 ;A3 7 7 ;* B132C"ED3 < ; ( 7 7 < = < 7 < ()F 7 = (! ( 7 <. reconstructs a regular 3D volume and renders it. Rendering is done by an incremental image-order ray-casting algor...

Incremental Volume Rendering Algorithm for Interactive 3D Ultrasound Imaging

Volume Rendering with the Kubota 3D Imaging and Graphics Accelerator

The Kubota 3D imaging and graphics accelerator, which provides advanced graphics for Digital's DEC 3000 AXP workstations, is the first desktop system to combine three-dimensional imaging and graphics technologies, and thus to fully support volume rendering. The power of the Kubota parallel architecture enables interactive volume rendering. The capability for combining volume rendering with geom...