Name
Title | ||
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Efficient hardware accelerated rendering of multiple volumes by data dependent local render functions |
Abstract | ||
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The inspection of a patient's data for diagnostics, therapy planning or therapy guidance involves an increasing number of 3D data sets, e.g. acquired by different imaging modalities, with different scanner settings or at different times. To enable viewing of the data in one consistent anatomical context fused interactive renderings of multiple 3D data sets are desirable. However, interactive fused rendering of typical medical data sets using standard computing hardware remains a challenge. In this paper we present a method to render multiple 3D data sets. By introducing local rendering functions, i.e. functions that are adapted to the complexity of the visible data contained in the different regions of a scene, we can ensure that the overall performance for fused rendering of multiple data sets depends on the actual amount of visible data. This is in contrast to other approaches where the performance depends mainly on the number of rendered data sets. We integrate the method into a streaming rendering architecture with brick-based data representations of the volume data. This enables efficient handling of data sets that do not fit into the graphics board memory and a good utilization of the texture caches. Furthermore, transfer and rendering of volume data that does not contribute to the final image can be avoided. We illustrate the benefits of our method by experiments with clinical data. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1117/12.709197 | Proceedings of SPIE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
volume visualization,3D,direct volume rendering,GPU,fused rendering,multi-volume rendering | Data set,Computer graphics (images),Computer data storage,Real-time rendering,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Computer hardware,Image-based modeling and rendering,Graphics,Computer vision,Visualization,Texture memory,Rendering (computer graphics) | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
6509 | 0277-786X | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 8 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helko Lehmann | 1 | 89 | 9.62 |
| D. Geller | 2 | 62 | 16.34 |
| Jürgen Weese | 3 | 774 | 92.69 |
| Gundolf Kiefer | 4 | 282 | 18.80 |