Direct rendering of deformable volume data

Shiaofen Fang; Rajagopalan Srinivasan

doi:10.1117/12.273929

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7 May 1997 Direct rendering of deformable volume data

Shiaofen Fang, Rajagopalan Srinivasan

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Proceedings Volume 3031, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273929
Event: Medical Imaging 1997, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present anew deformable volume rendering algorithm. The volume deformation is modeled by a landmark- based volume morphing method using Hardy's scattered data interpolation. The algorithm is able to directly render the deformed volume without going through the expensive volume construction process. Piecewise linear approximation of the deformation function by adaptive space subdivision and template-based block projection are used to speed up the rendering process. Our algorithm can render the morphing of a 256³ volume in seconds, instead of minutes and hours with the traditional morphing-rendering pipeline.

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Shiaofen Fang and Rajagopalan Srinivasan "Direct rendering of deformable volume data", Proc. SPIE 3031, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display, (7 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273929

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