Chapter 8
Rendering and Surface Models
Wolfgang Birkfellner
8.1 Visualization
Visualization, generally speaking, is the art and science of conveying information to a human observer by means of an image; we already learned about the most important and widespread visualization techniques in medical imaging – windowing, which makes information hidden in the full intensity depth of the image visible, and reformatting, which allows for exploring a data cube or volume in arbitrary directions. However, when speaking about medical image processing, the beautiful and astonishing photorealistic images generated from volume data often come to mind. Rendering is the core technology for generating these visualizations. In this chapter, we will learn about ...
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