Combining Silhouettes, Surface, and Volume Rendering for Surgery Education and Planning
Author(s): Christian Tietjen, Tobias Isenberg, Bernhard Preim.
Proceedings: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EUROVIS 2005), pp. 303--310, Leeds, UK, June 1-3,
2005.
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Abstract:
We introduce a flexible combination of volume, surface, and line rendering. We employ object-based edge detection because this allows a flexible parametrization of the generated lines. Our techniques were developed mainly for medical applications using segmented patient-individual volume datasets. In addition, we present an evaluation of the generated visualizations with 8 medical professionals and 25 laypersons. Integration of lines in conventional rendering turned out to be appropriate.