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: Received: 11 August 2020 / Approved: 15 August 2020 / Online: 15 August 2020 (06:42:31 CEST)
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Visutsak, P. Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization. Preprints2020, 2020080340. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0340.v1
Visutsak, P. Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization. Preprints 2020, 2020080340. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0340.v1
Visutsak, P. Marching Cubes and Histogram Pyramids for 3D Medical Visualization. Preprints2020, 2020080340. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0340.v1
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Abstract
This paper aims to implement histogram pyramids with marching cubes method for 3D medical volumetric rendering. The histogram pyramids are used for feature extraction by segmenting the image into the hierarchical order like the pyramid shape. The histogram pyramids can decrease the number of sparse matrixes that will occur during voxel manipulation. The important feature of the histogram pyramids is the direction of segments in the image. This feature will be then used for connecting pixels (2D) to form up voxel (3D) during marching cubes implementation. The proposed method is fast and easy to implement and it also produces a smooth result (compared to the traditional marching cubes technique). The experimental results show that time consuming for generating 3D model can be reduced by 15.59% in average. The paper also shows the comparison between the surface rendering using the traditional marching cubes and the marching cubes with histogram pyramids. Therefore, for the volumetric rendering such as 3D medical models and terrains where a large number of lookups in 3D grids are performed, this method is a particularly good choice for generating the smooth surface of 3D object.
Keywords
marching cubes; histogram pyramids; volumetric rendering; 3D medical model; smooth voxel; isosurface
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science
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