Strategy of statistics-based visualization for segmented 3D cardiac volume data set

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to design the transfer function of segmented cardiac volume data set by using statistical information of the cardiac tissues. To explore the interior subtle tissues of heart, visualization strategy is provided to guide the user to a satisfied rendering result with the help of opacity and gradient magnitude modulation. Using the visible human cardiac data set segmented from the CT data, experimental results indicate that our method can provide high quality rendering result and multi-level visualization effect. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.