Efficient multi-resolution volume rendering scheme

Jung Pill Choi; Sung Min Kwon; Jong Beom Ra

doi:10.1117/12.383035

18 April 2000 Efficient multi-resolution volume rendering scheme

Jung Pill Choi, Sung Min Kwon, Jong Beom Ra

Proceedings Volume 3976, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Display and Visualization; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383035
Event: Medical Imaging 2000, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Volume rendering is a visualizing technique for 3D volume data. The pixel values of a rendered image are determined by accumulating sampled values form volume data. Usually, the product of opacity and shading values is used as a sampled value. However, the size of the volume data is usually too big to handle in real time. Therefore, a control measure, which changes the level of detail (LOD) of the rendered image, may be introduced for obtaining a reasonable rendering speed. In this paper, we introduce a new criterion for controlling the LOD of the rendered image, and a new octree-based rendering method using this criterion efficiently. As the new criterion, the variance of the opacity and normal vector product is adopted and used to classify volume blocks into an octree structure. In the rendering stage, normal blocks are rendered by using the shear-warp factorization and single-valued blocks by using a template, while zero blocks are skipped. By performing in this fashion, the prosed scheme can reduce the overall rendering time. The scheme is evaluated by rendering a skull volume data ste obtained from an x-ray CT system.

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Jung Pill Choi, Sung Min Kwon, and Jong Beom Ra "Efficient multi-resolution volume rendering scheme", Proc. SPIE 3976, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Display and Visualization, (18 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383035

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