Visual Computing for Medicine, 2nd Edition

Part III

Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques

Part III “Advanced visualization techniques” starts with the visualization of anatomical tree structures, such as vascular and bronchial trees (Chap. 11). We describe different methods that produce comprehensible visualizations at different levels of detail and accuracy. Surface- and volume rendering techniques were developed and fine-tuned for the peculiarities of anatomical tree structures. Among the surface methods, a number of implicit surface representations have been introduced recently that enable a smooth and accurate visualization. While this chapter was restricted to surface-based visualizations in the first edition, we provide more detail on volume rendering techniques, tailored, e.g., ...