title: [Multi-resolution blending rendering of the medical structure].
abstract: This paper presents a new medical data visualization method called multi-resolution blending rendering which has been developed for visualizing the large medical volume data sets. Different from those multi-resolution rendering methods which simplify the structures by polygon mesh optimization technique, the new method uses different resolution levels to represent different parts of a structure at the same time. So, it can preserve the integrality of the structure and emphasize the important part of the structure when simplifying the structure. The new method also takes advantage of the good qualities of the wavelet transform and constructs the multi-resolution blending model of the structure by orthogonal wavelet transform and transition operator. The experiment proves that our method can effectively simplify the model of the structure, enormously reduce the number of the triangle of the structure and speed up the structure rendering. It is especially suitable for interactive observations on a complex medical structure.
authors.affiliation: CAD/CAM Research Center, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qing
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gui
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006257:Head / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D012985:Software Design