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Visualization of volume data in confocal microscopy: comparison and improvements of volume rendering methods
Author(s) -
LUCAS L.,
GILBERT N.,
PLOTON D.,
BONNET N.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1996.117397.x
Subject(s) - volume rendering , visualization , computer science , computer graphics (images) , rendering (computer graphics) , stereoscopy , computer vision , voxel , 3d rendering , artificial intelligence
Confocal microscopes routinely produce three‐dimensional data sets. The visualization of these digital volumes is currently performed by one surface rendering or volume rendering approach. In this paper, we describe improvements developed in the field of volume rendering. We focused on three methods: parallelepiped face mapping: the rotation‐projection method (with or without stereoscopy, with different matters and transparencies); the voxel ray‐tracing method. We compared the possibilities of these different algorithms, in terms of quality of rendering, of computation load and as an essential aid to study the 3D organization of biological specimens.