Publications

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Context-Aware Volume Modeling of Skeletal Muscles
Zhicheng Yan, Wei Chen, Aidong Lu, David S. Ebert

Provisionally accepted by Journal of Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue of EuroVis 2009)
2009

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Bivariate Transfer Functions on Unstructured Grids
Yuyan Song, Wei Chen, Ross Maciejewski, Kelly Gaither, David S. Ebert

Provisionally accepted by Journal of Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue of EuroVis 2009)
2009

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Laplacian Lines for Real-Time Shape Illustration
Long Zhang, Ying He, Xuexiang Xie, Wei Chen
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009
2009

This paper presents a novel object-space line drawing algorithmthat can depict shape with view dependent feature lines in real-time. Strongly inspired by the Laplacian-of-Gaussian (LoG) edge detector in image processing, we define Laplacian Lines as the zerocrossing points of the Laplacian of the surface illumination. Compared to other view dependent features, Laplacian lines are computationally efficient because most expensive computations can be pre-processed. Thus, Laplacian lines are very promising for interactively illustrating large-scale models.

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Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data with merging ellipsoids
Wei Chen, Song Zhang, Steve Correia, David F. Tate
To appear Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009
2009

Diffusion tensor fields reveal the underlying anatomical structures in biological tissues such as neural fibers in the brain. Most current methods for visualizing the diffusion tensor field can be categorized into two classes: integral curves and glyphs. Integral curves are continuous and rep-resent the underlying fiber structures, but are prone to inte-gration error and loss of local information. Glyphs are useful for representing local tensor information, but do not convey the connectivity in the anatomical structures well. We in-troduce a simple yet effective visualization technique that extends the streamball method in flow visualization to ten-sor ellipsoids. Each tensor ellipsoid represents a local tensor, and either blends with neighboring tensors or breaks away from them depending on their orientations and anisotropies. The resulting visualization shows the connectivity informa-tion in the underlying anatomy while characterizing the local tenors in detail....

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