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During real-time medical data exploration using volume rendering, it is often difficult to enhance a particular region of interest without losing context information. In this paper, we present a new illustrative technique for focusing on a user-driven region of interest while preserving context information. Our focal probes define a region of interest using a distance function which controls the opacity of the voxels within the probe, exploit silhouette enhancement and use non-photorealistic shading techniques to improve shape depiction.
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Luo, Y., Iglesias Guitián, J.A., Gobbetti, E., Marton, F. (2009). Context Preserving Focal Probes for Exploration of Volumetric Medical Datasets. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N. (eds) Modelling the Physiological Human. 3DPH 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10470-1_16
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