Visualization and visual analysis play important roles in exploring, analyzing, and
presenting scientific data. In many disciplines, data and model scenarios are becoming …

With the increasing availability of high-resolution isotropic three-or four-dimensional medical
datasets from sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and …

A survey of the development of the marching cubes algorithm [W. Lorensen, H. Cline,
Marching cubes: a high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. Computer Graphics …

The tremendous evolution of programmable graphics hardware has made high-quality real-
time volume graphics a reality. In addition to the traditional application of rendering volume …

This paper presents algorithms and a prototype system for hand tracking and hand posture
recognition. Hand postures are represented in terms of hierarchies of multi-scale colour …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Visualization of high-dimensional, large data sets, resulting from computational simulation,
is one of the most challenging fields in scientific viualization. When visualization aims at …

Illustrations play a major role in the education process. Whether used to teach a surgical or
radiologic procedure, to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, or to explain the functioning …

Illustrative volume visualization frequently employs non‐photorealistic rendering techniques
to enhance important features or to suppress unwanted details. However, it is difficult to …

This paper presents importance-driven feature enhancement as a technique for the
automatic generation of cut-away and ghosted views out of volumetric data. The presented …