Volumetric Blood Flow Rendering

Members

• Current graduate students: Ming-Chen Hsu, Han Kim, and Gregory Long

• Faculty: Yuri Bazilevs, Jurgen Schulze, and Alison Marsden

• Past students: Kenneth Benner, Sasha Koruga

TODO

Han

• create a new folder under plugin
• write data loader for bloodflow data
• build an octree with the data

Paper List

Cylindrical rendering

• Colon Visualization Using Cylindrical Parameterization - Z. Mai, T. Huysmans, and J. Sijbers
• Volumetric Rendering of Cylindrical data
  • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=99318
  • talks about rendering curvilinear surfaces, basically just says to interpolate

Flow Visualization

• http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/~cszp/files/peng09survey/peng09survey.pdf

• Illustrative Stream Surfaces - Silvia Born, Alexander Wiebel, Jan Friedrich, Gerik Scheuermann, and Dirk Bartz
  • this paper has amazing illustrative figures of vector fields.
• Evenly Spaced Streamlines for Surfaces: An Image-Based Approach
  • http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~zhange/images/imagestreamline.pdf
• Flow Visualization Techniques for CFD Using Volume Rendering https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/238449.pdf
  • Nice overview of different flow visualization techniques (streamlines, stream surfaces, etc)
• Flow http://www.zhanpingliu.org/research/flowvis/FlowVis.htm
  • overview of many flow visualization techniques - focuses on Line Integral Convolution and extensions of it.

Transfer function

• Semi-Automatic Time-Series Transfer Functions via Temporal Clustering and Sequencing
• An Exploratory Technique for Coherent Visualization of Time-varying Volume Data http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01690.x/abstract
• Importance-driven time-varying data visualization http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4658174

System

• Real-time decompression and visualization of animated volume data
• Texture hardware assisted rendering of time-varying volume data
• A fast volume rendering algorithm for time-varying fields using a time-space partitioning tree.
• Volume Rendering of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Roger C. Tam, Christopher G. Healey, Borys Flak, and Peter Cahoon
  • http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/HTML_papers/aneurism/aneurism.html
  • old, specific to topic, on whole CT data, not a model
• Computer aided diagnosis for virtual endoscopy Wei Hong
  • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570930&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=4717818&CFTOKEN=19743614
  • no online copy available
  • not specific to blood vessels
• High-Quality Two-Level Volume Rendering of Segmented Data Sets on Consumer Graphics Hardware
  • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1081432.1081484&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=4717818&CFTOKEN=19743614
  • emphasizes implementation of the rendering

Segmentation

• Hybrid Segmentation and Exploration of the Human Lungs
  • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1081432.1081468&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=4717818&CFTOKEN=19743614
  • rendering lungs for virtual endoscopy
  • segmentation methods
  • touches on blood vessels in lungs - too small/intricate?
• Connectivity-based local adaptive thresholding for carotid artery segmentation using MRA images
  • link
  • seems relevant, no pdf

Vector field visualization

• Most vector field visualization are textures, “smoke” particles
• mostly seems to apply to fluids passing over solid objects (cars, airplanes)

• Visualization of Vorticity and Vortices in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4276084
• Higher Dimensional Vector Field Visualization: A Survey
  • http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/~cszp/files/peng09survey/peng09survey.pdf
  • summary of different techniques
  • current (2009)
  • looked mostly at section 4, 5 & the table at the beginning