BME Advanced Imaging [399-650A]: Course Notes

Surface/Volume Rendering

• Suggested reading:
  • Levoy, M., Display of Surfaces from Volume Data, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,Vol. 8, No. 3, May, 1988, pp. 29-37. (To be provided in class)
• Class notes
  • Slides of Volume Rendering class notes.
  • Slides of Surface Rendering class notes.
• Review/reference papers
  • An Introduction to Visualisation Software for Astronomy by A C Davenhall is a good source of on-line info. In particular, see iso-surface rendering and volume rendering
  • Surface rendering and Volume rendering techniques from Scientific Visualization Tutorials (Georgia Tech)
  • Surfaces and Renderings written by Malcolm McCullough (very useful graphics descriptions - but from an Architectural point of view)
  • Comparison of Visualization Techniques and Packages by Sander Beliën and Rik Leenders
  • Tutorial on Visualization, by Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • POVray tutorial from Robert Fremin - good tutorial of graphics rendering (not medical based)
• Bibliographies
  • Medical Image Volume Visualization Software FAQ by Matti Havari
  • USC Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography is a great searchable data base of computer vision literature. The entries below are from this data base.
    • USC Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstructions
  • Scientific Visualization Annotated Bibliography
• Research Links
  • Volume Rendering from Marc Levoy's home page. Great images!
  • The Volume Visualization ProjectUNIVERSITÄT KAISERSLAUTERN
  • Parallel Volume Rendering Bibliography by Craig M. Wittenbrink
  • Parallel Volume Renderingfrom the Dept. of Computer Science (DCS) at the Australian National University
  • BELA volume rendering project, University of Alberta
  • Volume Rendering at Standford University
  • Rendering research (pure graphics) University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Online Courseware in Computer Graphics
  • Computer Graphics, wonderful class notes developed by A. Goodman, U. Deakin.
  • Gravigs project at the University of Manchester.
  • CS488 Introduction to Computer Graphics at The University of Waterloo.
  • CS248 Pat Hanrahan's 1996 Introduction to Computer Graphics unit at Stanford.
  • 15 - 463 Computer Graphics I unit at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • CS184 UC Berkeley's Foundations of Computer Graphics.
• Interesting Links
  • SOLUS 3D fetal ultrasound imaging - mpeg animations
  • Virtual Reality Volumetric Display Techniques for 3-D Medical Ultrasound Randy W. Heiland, Richard J. Littlefield, Dr. Christian Macedonia, appeared in Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: 4 (1996)
  • Volume Graphics:The road to interactive medical imaging?by Amere Oakman (has some quick definitions of surface/volume rendering).
  • Glossary for Scientific Visualization, Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Ray Tracing News Volume 1, Number 2
  • Shading and Rendering a short description by Christopher M. LoBue
  • Topographic Mapping of Trans-Cranial Magnetic Stimulation Data on Surface Rendered MR Images Of The Brainby K.D.Singh
  • Volume Visualization with Texture - notes from SGI
  • Volume Visualization in Magnetic Resonance Angiography, A. Pommert, M. Bomans, K. H. Höhne, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine (IMDM) University Hospital Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany
  • Volume Visualization of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Yoshinobu Sato's Volume Rendering Gallery of 3D Medical Images
  • H. Pfister at MERL
  • Voxel MAN CompSci in medicine, U. Hamburg
  • Virtual Reality in Medicine from the Institute of computer Science V, Universitat Mannheim, Germany
  • University of Utrecht. Visualization and Simulation
• Applications/ Toolboxes/ Commercial Packages
  • The Visualization Toolkit - a free library of graphics primitives.
  • The Visualization Toolkit Exercise Solutions
  • VolVis volume visualization system from the Visualization Laboratory in the Center for Visual Computing, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • VoxBlast 3D Measurement and Volume Visualization Software
  • 3D-DOCTOR: 3D Imaging, Rendering and Deconvolution on Your PC
  • Volume visualization with Matlab
  • The VolPack Volume Rendering Library
  • Volsh: NCAR Volume Rendering Software
  • Real Time Visualization
  • Visible Human Data Sets
  • Volume Graphics
  • Three Dimensional Medical Reconstruction
  • 3-D Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
  • Vis5D - visualization of 5D data
  • CieMed: Real-time volume visualization system