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ReviewJournal of digital imaging2011

Volume visualization: a technical overview with a focus on medical applications.

Qi Zhang, Roy Eagleson, Terry M Peters

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Review in Journal of digital imaging, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Multi-volume rendering using depth buffers for surgical planning in virtual reality.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
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  6. Extended reality for biomedicine.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2023
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  11. Augmented and Mixed Reality: Technologies for Enhancing the Future of IR.Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR · 2020
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  13. Retrieving 3D medical data along fitted curved slices and their display.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020
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  17. GPU-based multi-volume ray casting within VTK for medical applications.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2015
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  19. A survey of GPU-based medical image computing techniques.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Qi ZhangImaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. qzhang@imaging.robarts.ca
Roy Eagleson
Terry M Peters

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP 74626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing availability of high-resolution isotropic three- or four-dimensional medical datasets from sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and ultrasound, volumetric image visualization techniques have increased in importance. Over the past two decades, a number of new algorithms and improvements have been developed for practical clinical image display. More recently, further efficiencies have been attained by designing and implementing volume-rendering algorithms on graphics processing units (GPUs). In this paper, we review volumetric image visualization pipelines, algorithms, and medical applications. We also illustrate our algorithm implementation and evaluation results, and address the advantages and drawbacks of each algorithm in terms of image quality and efficiency. Within the outlined literature review, we have integrated our research results relating to new visualization, classification, enhancement, and multimodal data dynamic rendering. Finally, we illustrate issues related to modern GPU working pipelines, and their applications in volume visualization domain.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsDiagnostic ImagingComputer GraphicsDatabases, FactualHumansImage EnhancementImage Interpretation, Computer-Assisted

Identifiers

PMID20714917
PMCPMC3138940

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