Title :
Visualization through differentiating reflection functions
Author :
Koldenhof, Gibby
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput., Commun. & Media Technol., Amersfoort, Netherlands
Abstract :
Conventional visualization media such as computer screens are inherently two dimensional, making them incapable of displaying true 3D volume data sets. By applying only transparency or intensity projection, and ignoring light-matter interaction, results will likely fail to give optimal results. Little research has been done on using reflection functions to visually separate the various segments of a MRI volume. We explore whether applying specific reflection functions to individual anatomical structures can help in building an intuitive 2D image from a 3D dataset. We test our hypothesis by visualizing fMRI activation data because it contains complex and different types of information making it a good candidate for our approach.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; data visualisation; medical computing; rendering (computer graphics); 2D image; BRDF; anatomical structure; data visualization; differentiating reflection function; fMRI activation data; medical visualization; specular reflection overlap; volume rendering; Reflection; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2177-0
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2004.1320129