Title :
Block volume rendering using accelerator board in medical images
Author :
Kim, D.W. ; Kim, J.S. ; Kim, In Y. ; Kim, Sun I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
To reduce rendering time, there have been many fast algorithms. There are limitations of rendering speed using only software algorithms on PC. To overcome this problem, we introduce a new method, parallel processing using an accelerator board on PC
Keywords :
computer graphic equipment; medical image processing; octrees; parallel algorithms; rendering (computer graphics); 3D rendering; accelerator board; assembly language; block volume rendering; fast algorithm; graphics card; improved object order method; interpolation; medical images; octree structure; parallel processing; rendering time reduction; slave processor; software algorithms; Biomedical imaging; Color; Electrical capacitance tomography; Image quality; Interpolation; Parallel processing; Rendering (computer graphics); Software algorithms; Sun; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900420
