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16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005)
Statistically Quantitative Volume Visualization
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 23-October 28
ISBN: 0-7803-9462-3
Joe M. Kniss, University of Utah
Robert Van Uitert, National Institutes of Health
Abraham Stephens, University of Utah
Guo-Shi Li, University of Utah
Tolga Tasdizen, University of Utah
Charles Hansen, University of Utah
Visualization users are increasingly in need of techniques for assessing quantitative uncertainty and error in the images produced. Statistical segmentation algorithms compute these quantitative results, yet volume rendering tools typically produce only qualitative imagery via transfer functionbased classification. This paper presents a visualization technique that allows users to interactively explore the uncertainty, risk, and probabilistic decision of surface boundaries. Our approach makes it possible to directly visualize the combined "fuzzy" classification results from multiple segmentations by combining these data into a unified probabilistic data space. We represent this unified space, the combination of scalar volumes from numerous segmentations, using a novel graph-based dimensionality reduction scheme. The scheme both dramatically reduces the dataset size and is suitable for efficient, high quality, quantitative visualization. Lastly, we show that the statistical risk arising from overlapping segmentations is a robust measure for visualizing features and assigning optical properties.
Index Terms:
volume visualization, uncertainty, classification,risk analysis
Citation:
Joe M. Kniss, Robert Van Uitert, Abraham Stephens, Guo-Shi Li, Tolga Tasdizen, Charles Hansen, "Statistically Quantitative Volume Visualization," ieee_vis, pp.37, 16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005), 2005
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