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Moment Based Transfer Function Design for Volume Rendering

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Local data features play important roles in the transfer function design for volume rendering. By examining relationships among three eigenvalues of inertia matrix, a semi-automatic data-driven transfer function design method is presented in this paper. Local features detected by local block based moments, such as flat, round, elongated shapes are used to guide the design of transfer functions. Furthermore, the proposed method can objectively fulfill the function of the previous boundary based method and extend the domain of transfer function to include more data features. Practice experiments are conducted to render real medical data sets by using the proposed transfer function method.

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  1. IBM Computer Technology Center, Tian** University, Tian**, 300072, P.R.China

    Zhang Jiawan, Sun Jizhou & Sun Zhigang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Wei Zunce

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA University of Minessota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. School of Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  5. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle Montréal, Université de Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

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Jiawan, Z., Jizhou, S., Zhigang, S., Zunce, W. (2003). Moment Based Transfer Function Design for Volume Rendering. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44842-X_28

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