ITCS 6010/8010: Biomedical Imaging and Visualization (Fall 2005)

Instructor

Dr. K.R. Subramanian
Office: Woodward Hall, Rm 435E
Phone: 704 687-8579
Email: krs@uncc.edu
Web: www.cs.uncc.edu/~krs

Course Description (PDF)

Lecture Slides

Introduction: Imaging Science [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
Background: Interactive Computer Graphics [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
Background: Visualization Toolkit(VTK) [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
Image Acquisition Systems

Image Processing and Analysis

Visualization (Student Seminars (Schedule below) )

Medical Image Segmentation

ITK Filters [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]

Date Topic Articles Presentor Presentation
10/24/05 Overview 1 Subramanian Slides(pdf) [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
10/26/05 Project Review None Subramanian None
10/30/05 Surface Rendering, Decimation 2, 3 Barua Slides (Powerpoint)
11/2/05 Direct Volume Rendering(DVR) 4, 5 Dixit Slides (PDF)
11/7/05 Texture Mapping based DVR/Splatting 6, 7 Filippi Slides(Powerpoint)
11/12/05 Transfer Functions 8, 9 Liu Slides(PDF)

  1. T. Elvins, ``A Survey of Algorithms for Volume Visualization", Computer Graphics 26(3), 1992.
    Full Paper(pdf)
  2. W.E. Lorensen, H.E. Cline, ``Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm, Computer Graphics, 21(4), 1987.
    Full Paper(pdf)
  3. W.J. Schroeder, J.A. Zarge, W.E. Lorensen, ``Decimation of Triangle Meshes", Computer Graphics, 26(2), 1992.
    Full Paper(pdf)"
  4. M. Levoy, ``Display of Surfaces from Volume Data", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May 1988.
    Full Paper(pdf)"
  5. R.A. Drebin, L. Carpenter, P. Hanrahan, ``Volume Rendering", Computer Graphics, 22(4), Aug. 1988.
    Full Paper(pdf)"
  6. A. Van Gelder, K. Kim, ``Direct Volume Rendering with Shading via Three-Dimensional Textures", Symposium of Volume Visualization 1996 (VolVis 1996), 1996.
    Full Paper(pdf)
  7. L. Westover, ``Footprint Evaluation for Volume Rendering", Computer Graphics, 24(4), 1990.
    Full Paper(pdf)"
  8. G. Kindlmann, J.W. Durkin, ``Semi-Automatic Generation of Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering", Symposium of Volume Visualization 1998. IEEE Computer Society.
    Full Paper(pdf)
  9. J. Kniss, G. Kindlmann, C. Hansen, ``Interactive Volume Rendering Using Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions and Direct Manipulation Widgets", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2001, IEEE Computer Society.
    Full Paper(pdf)

Projects

Project 1: VTK Primer
Project 2: VTK-ITK Primer

Visualization/Graphics Software Documentation


Last update: K.R. Subramanian (krs@uncc.edu), Aug. 29, 2005