MASCOR

Mobile Autonomous Systems
and Cognitive Robotics

MedicVR

Rendering Medical Volume Data in Virtual Reality

Direct Volume Rendering (DVR) techniques are used to visualize surfaces from 3D volume data sets without computing a 3D geometry. Several surfaces can be classified using a transfer function by mapping data values to color and opacity (RGBalpha). To find a good transfer function with the aim to separate specific structures from the volume data set is in general a manual, exhausting, and time-consuming procedure and requires detailed knowledge of the data and the image acquisition technique. We develop a new interactive Virtual Reality (VR) application to load, modify and save the transfer function in real time while continuously interacting and rendering the 3D volume through GPU-based ray casting shader. Especially when rendering medical data the immersive exploration allows for many interesting and innovative applications!

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Impressions

Rendering

Sliding Planes

Editing the Transfer Function