Title
A novel interface for interactive exploration of DTI fibers.
Abstract
Visual exploration is essential to the visualization and analysis of densely sampled 3D DTI fibers in biological specimens, due to the high geometric, spatial, and anatomical complexity of fiber tracts. Previous methods for DTI fiber visualization use zooming, color-mapping, selection, and abstraction to deliver the characteristics of the fibers. However, these schemes mainly focus on the optimization of visualization in the 3D space where cluttering and occlusion make grasping even a few thousand fibers difficult. This paper introduces a novel interaction method that augments the 3D visualization with a 2D representation containing a low-dimensional embedding of the DTI fibers. This embedding preserves the relationship between the fibers and removes the visual clutter that is inherent in 3D renderings of the fibers. This new interface allows the user to manipulate the DTI fibers as both 3D curves and 2D embedded points and easily compare or validate his or her results in both domains. The implementation of the framework is GPU based to achieve real-time interaction. The framework was applied to several tasks, and the results show that our method reduces the user's workload in recognizing 3D DTI fibers and permits quick and accurate DTI fiber selection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TVCG.2009.112
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time interaction,accurate dti fiber selection,dti fiber visualization use,low-dimensional embedding,thousand fiber,interactive exploration,dti fiber,previous method,visual clutter,novel interaction method,dti fibers,fiber tract,novel interface,tensile stress,visualization,real time,fibers,magnetic resonance imaging,3d visualization,data visualisation,computer science,diffusion tensor imaging
Computer vision,Diffusion MRI,Data visualization,Embedding,Fiber,Visualization,Computer science,Zoom,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),OpenGL
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
6
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.74
18
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Chen1119392.00
Zi'ang Ding2222.46
Song Zhang364253.89
Anna MacKay-Brandt4200.74
Stephen Correia5885.07
Huamin Qu62033115.33
John Allen Crow7221.11
David F Tate8605.42
Zhicheng Yan91959.30
Qunsheng Peng101193101.63