A Survey of Perceptually Motivated 3D Visualization of Medical Image Data

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 501 - 525
• Main Authors: Preim, Bernhard, Baer, Alexandra, Cunningham, Douglas, Isenberg, Tobias, Ropinski, Timo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2016; Wiley
• Subjects: Analysis; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Cognitive science; Computer graphics; Computer science; I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Line and curve generation; Illumination; Light; Medical imaging; Orientation; Perception; Rendering; Studies; Tasks; Three dimensional; Visualization

This survey provides an overview of perceptually motivated techniques for the visualization of medical image data, including physics‐based lighting techniques as well as illustrative rendering that incorporate spatial depth and shape cues. Additionally, we discuss evaluations that were conducted in...