Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization
This paper aims to implement histogram pyramids with marching cubes method for 3D medical volumetric rendering. The histogram pyramids are used for feature extraction by segmenting the image into the hierarchical order like the pyramid shape. The histogram pyramids can decrease the number of sparse...
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| description | This paper aims to implement histogram pyramids with marching cubes method for 3D medical volumetric rendering. The histogram pyramids are used for feature extraction by segmenting the image into the hierarchical order like the pyramid shape. The histogram pyramids can decrease the number of sparse matrixes that will occur during voxel manipulation. The important feature of the histogram pyramids is the direction of segments in the image. Then this feature will be used for connecting pixels (2D) to form up voxel (3D) during marching cubes implementation. The proposed method is fast and easy to implement and it also produces a smooth result (compared to the traditional marching cubes technique). The experimental results show the time consuming for generating 3D model can be reduced by 15.59% in average. The paper also shows the comparison between the surface rendering using the traditional marching cubes and the marching cubes with histogram pyramids. Therefore, for the volumetric rendering such as 3D medical models and terrains where a large number of lookups in 3D grids are performed, this method is a particularly good choice for generating the smooth surface of 3D object. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8d23629d25649a9a2275fd2b02d74842023-11-20T12:29:11ZengMDPI AGJournal of Imaging2313-433X2020-09-01698810.3390/jimaging6090088Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical VisualizationPorawat Visutsak0Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Applied Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok 10800, ThailandThis paper aims to implement histogram pyramids with marching cubes method for 3D medical volumetric rendering. The histogram pyramids are used for feature extraction by segmenting the image into the hierarchical order like the pyramid shape. The histogram pyramids can decrease the number of sparse matrixes that will occur during voxel manipulation. The important feature of the histogram pyramids is the direction of segments in the image. Then this feature will be used for connecting pixels (2D) to form up voxel (3D) during marching cubes implementation. The proposed method is fast and easy to implement and it also produces a smooth result (compared to the traditional marching cubes technique). The experimental results show the time consuming for generating 3D model can be reduced by 15.59% in average. The paper also shows the comparison between the surface rendering using the traditional marching cubes and the marching cubes with histogram pyramids. Therefore, for the volumetric rendering such as 3D medical models and terrains where a large number of lookups in 3D grids are performed, this method is a particularly good choice for generating the smooth surface of 3D object.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/6/9/88marching cubeshistogram pyramidsvolumetric rendering3D medical modelsmooth voxelisosurface |
| spellingShingle | Porawat Visutsak Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization Journal of Imaging marching cubes histogram pyramids volumetric rendering 3D medical model smooth voxel isosurface |
| title | Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization |
| title_full | Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization |
| title_fullStr | Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization |
| title_short | Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization |
| title_sort | marching cubes and histogram pyramids for 3d medical visualization |
| topic | marching cubes histogram pyramids volumetric rendering 3D medical model smooth voxel isosurface |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/6/9/88 |
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