Recent Advances in Volume Visualization

In the past few years, there have been key advances in the three main approaches to the visualization of volumetric data: isosurfacing, slicing and volume rendering, which together make up the field of volume visualization.

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[67]  Michael E. Goss,et al.  Opacity-weighted color interpolation for volume sampling , 1998, IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization (Cat. No.989EX300).

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[69]  Valerio Pascucci,et al.  Accelerated IsoContouring of Scalar Fields , 1998 .

[70]  Thomas Frühauf.  Raycasting of Nonregularly Structured Volume Data , 1994, Comput. Graph. Forum.

[71]  Philippe Lacroute,et al.  Analysis of a Parallel Volume Rendering System Based on the Shear-Warp Factorization , 1996, IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph..

[72]  Ken BrodlieSchool.  Accuracy in Contour Drawing , 1998 .

[73]  Karl Heinz Höhne,et al.  High quality rendering of attributed volume data , 1998 .

[74]  Michael J. Bailey.  Manufacturing Isovolumes , 2000, Volume Graphics.

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[76]  Roberto Scopigno,et al.  DiscMC: an interactive system for fast fitting isosurfaces on volume data , 1996 .

[77]  Klaus Mueller,et al.  A comparison of normal estimation schemes , 1997, Proceedings. Visualization '97 (Cat. No. 97CB36155).

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[81]  Klaus Mueller,et al.  Splatting without the blur , 1999, Proceedings Visualization '99 (Cat. No.99CB37067).

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[84]  Brian Cabral,et al.  Accelerated volume rendering and tomographic reconstruction using texture mapping hardware , 1994, VVS '94.

[85]  Arie E. Kaufman,et al.  Accelerated ray-casting for curvilinear volumes , 1998, Proceedings Visualization '98 (Cat. No.98CB36276).

[86]  N W John,et al.  Medical volume rendering over the WWW using VRML and JAVA. , 1998, Studies in health technology and informatics.

[87]  David C. Banks,et al.  Extracting iso-valued features in 4-dimensional scalar fields , 1998, VVS '98.

[88]  Jayaram K. Udupa,et al.  Shape-based interpolation of multidimensional grey-level images , 1994, Medical Imaging.

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