Visualization of medical data (Part I and part II)

Eduard Groeller

Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology

email: groeller[at]cg.tuwien.ac.at

homepage of author: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/EduardGroeller.html

homepage of course (in German): http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/MedVis/VU.html

• Title of visualization course: Visualization of medical data (Part I and part II)

• Aimed at what category of students: Students of Computer Science

• Objectives of the course / List topics of course:
• Acquisition of 3D Data - Tomographic Techniques
• The DICOM Image Format
• f3d Format for Storage of 3D Grids
• Sampling, Filtering, Reconstruction
• Voxelization of Geometric Objects
• Sampling Aspects of Volume Rendering
• Segmentation
• Interactive and Automatic Segmentation of Tomographic Data
• Volumetric Data Registration
• Interpolation and Transfer Function Issues
• Volume Visualization by Volumetric Ray Tracing
• Surface and Gradient Estimation
• Rendering
• Hardware Accelerated Volume Visualization

• Planing and training of operations
• Virtual endoscopy
• Segmentation of time-dependent data
• Presentation of multi-modal data
• Physical based simulation of tissue
• Special rendering methods
• Augmented Reality in medicine
• Visualization of large data volumes
• Atlas based segmentation
• Hardware based visualization, segmentation and simulation

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