Efficient visibility-driven medical image visualisation via adaptive binned visibility histogram

The advent of efficient volume rendering algorithms and powerful graphical processing units (GPUs) has enabled the introduction of direct volume rendering (DVR) visualisation that provides three-dimensional (3D) views and interactive navigation. DVR has been broadly applied to medical images in clinical diagnosis (Kim et al., 2004), planning for surgery/radiotherapy (Kruger et al., 2008), and training (Georgii et al., 2007). In DVR, transfer functions (TF) are used to control the optical properties of data value (intensity) in a volume and play an important role in defining a satisfactory visualisation.
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research