Interactive pre-integrated volume rendering of medical datasets

Heewon Kye; Helen Hong D.D.S.; Yeong-Gil Shin

doi:10.1117/12.594534

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12 April 2005 Interactive pre-integrated volume rendering of medical datasets

Heewon Kye, Helen Hong D.D.S., Yeong-Gil Shin

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Proceedings Volume 5744, Medical Imaging 2005: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594534
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

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The pre-integrated volume rendering which produces high-quality images with less sampling has become one of the most efficient and important techniques in volume rendering field. In this paper, we propose an acceleration technique of pre-integrated rendering of dynamically classified volumes. Using the overlapped-min-max block, empty space skipping of ray casting can be applied in pre-integrated volume rendering. In addition, a new pre-integrated lookup table brings much fast rendering of high-precision data without degrading image quality. We have implemented our approaches not only on the consumer graphics hardware but also on CPU, and show the performance gains using several medical data sets.

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Heewon Kye, Helen Hong D.D.S., and Yeong-Gil Shin "Interactive pre-integrated volume rendering of medical datasets", Proc. SPIE 5744, Medical Imaging 2005: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, (12 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594534

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