by Ping-Fu Fung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-102). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.iv / Acknowledgements --- p.vi / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Medical Visualization System --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Data Acquisition --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Computer-aided Medical Visualization --- p.5 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- Existing Systems --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Goal --- p.8 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- System Architecture --- p.9 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of this Thesis --- p.10 / Chapter 2 --- Volume Visualization --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Sampling Grid and Volume Representation --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Priori Work in Volume Rendering --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Surface VS Direct --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Image-order VS Object-order --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Orthogonal VS Perspective --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Hardware Acceleration VS Software Acceleration --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- Chapter Summary --- p.29 / Chapter 3 --- IsoRegion Leaping Technique for Perspective Volume Rendering --- p.30 / Chapter 3.1 --- Compositing Projection in Direct Volume Rendering --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2 --- IsoRegion Leaping Acceleration --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- IsoRegion Definition --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- IsoRegion Construction --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- IsoRegion Step Table --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Ray Traversal Scheme --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3 --- Experiment Result --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4 --- Improvement --- p.47 / Chapter 3.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.48 / Chapter 4 --- Parallel Volume Rendering by Distributed Processing --- p.50 / Chapter 4.1 --- Multi-platform Loosely-coupled Parallel Environment Shell --- p.51 / Chapter 4.2 --- Distributed Rendering Pipeline (DRP) --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Network Architecture of a Loosely-Coupled System --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Data and Task Partitioning --- p.58 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Communication Pattern and Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 4.3 --- Load Balancing --- p.69 / Chapter 4.4 --- Heterogeneous Rendering --- p.72 / Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.73 / Chapter 5 --- User Interface --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1 --- System Design --- p.75 / Chapter 5.2 --- 3D Pen Input Device --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3 --- Visualization Environment Integration --- p.77 / Chapter 5.4 --- User Interaction: Interactive Navigation --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Camera Model --- p.79 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Zooming --- p.81 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Image View --- p.82 / Chapter 5.4.4 --- User Control --- p.83 / Chapter 5.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.87 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.88 / Chapter 6.1 --- Final Summary --- p.88 / Chapter 6.2 --- Deficiency and Improvement --- p.89 / Chapter 6.3 --- Future Research Aspect --- p.91 / Appendix --- p.93 / Chapter A --- Common Error in Pre-multiplying Color and Opacity --- p.94 / Chapter B --- Binary Factorization of the Sample Composition Equation --- p.96
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322214 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Contributors | Fung, Ping-Fu., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, xi, 102 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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