A perceptive evaluation of volume rendering techniques

Volume Visualization and Volume Rendering Techniques

There is a wide range of devices and scientific simulation generating volumetric data. Visualizing such data, ranging from regular data sets to scattered data, is a challenging task. This course will give an introduction to the volume rendering transport theory and the involved issues such as interpolation, illumination, classification and others. Different volume rendering techniques will be p...

Advanced Volume Rendering Techniques for Medical Applications

Interactive visual analysis of a patient’s anatomy by means of computer-generated 3D imagery is crucial for diagnosis, pre-operative planning, and surgical training. Hence, computer-aided visualization has established itself in medical applications. Recent advances in consumer class graphics hardware (GPUs) allow a number of new, high-quality visualization modes, while at the same time reducing...

A Survey of Volumetric Illumination Techniques for Interactive Volume Rendering

Interactive volume rendering in its standard formulation has become an increasingly important tool in many application domains. In recent years several advanced volumetric illumination techniques to be used in interactive scenarios have been proposed. These techniques claim to have perceptual benefits as well as being capable of producing more realistic volume rendered images. Naturally, they c...

Evaluation of a Real-Time Direct Volume Rendering System

. VIRIM, a real-time direct volume rendering system is evaluated for medical applications. Experiences concerning the hardware architecture are discussed. The issues are the flexibility of VIRIM, the restriction to two gradient components only, the duplication of the volume data sets on different modules, the size of the volume data set, the gray-value segmentation tool, and the support of algo...

Eecient Techniques for Volume Rendering of Scalar Fields