Volumetric Visualization
Professor: Alexandre Xavier Falcao
Course Program
- Volumetric image acquisition, mathematical definition, and memory representation.
- Radiometric transformations and use of color.
- Affine and projective geometric transformations.
- Interpolation, reformatting, and planar slicing.
- Ray casting, planar reformatting, and maximum/mean intensity projection.
- (Differential) Image Foresting Transform (IFT) and interactive 3D image segmentation.
- Model-based image segmentation and interactive correction.
- Euclidean Distance Transform (EDT), fast morphological operations via EDT, and isosurface slice reformatting.
- Illumination models with object color and transparency.
- Object visualization.
- Image registration and color composition.
Tasks
Task 01 — Slice Extraction and Display
Extracting and displaying orthogonal slices from volumetric datasets with linear stretching, colormaps, and medical image coordinates.
Task 02 — Maximum Intensity Projection
Maximum intensity projection rendering for volumetric data with CPU (WASM) and GPU (WebGL2) interactive viewers.