Volume Graphics Research Group: Papers

The Volume Graphics Research Group

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Volume Generation and Manipulation

Volume Modeling and Deformation

  • Y. Kurzion and R. Yagel, "Continuous and Discontinuous Deformation using Ray Deflectors", Proceedings of GRAPHICON'96, Vol. 2, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 1996, pp. 102-110.
  • N. Shareef and R. Yagel, "Rapid Previewing via Volume-based Solid Modeling", The Third Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, SOLID MODELING `95, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1995, pp. 281-292.
  • Y. Kurzion and R. Yagel "Space Deformation using Ray Deflectors," Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Dublin, Ireland, June 1995, pp. 21-32.
  • Y. Kurzion and R. Yagel, "Space Deformation with Hardware Assistance", submitted to IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, June 1996.
  • Technical Report: A. Law and R. Yagel, "Voxel-Based Morphing," (OSU-CISRC-4/93-TR15).

    Algebraic Reconstruction from Projections (ART)

  • K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and F. Cornhill, "The Weighted Distance Scheme: A Globally Optimizing Projection Ordering Method for ART" accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, October 1996.
  • K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J. F. Cornhill, "Improving Accuracy of the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by Efficient Projection Pixel Supersampling accepted to 81st Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, RSNA 1995.
  • K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, "Accelerating the Anti-aliased Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by Table-Based Voxel Backward Projection," Proceedings of IEEE EBMS 17th annual Conference, EMBC 95, Montreal, Canada, 1995, pp. 497.
  • K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and F. Cornhill, "The Weighted Distance Scheme: A Globally Optimizing Projection Ordering Method for ART" submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, April 1996.
  • Technical Report: K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J. F. Cornhill, "Efficient and Accurate Implementation of the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART)", 34 pp. (OSU-CISRC-4/95-TR12).

    Applications: Diecasting

  • S.C. Lu, A.B. Rebello, D.H. Cui, R. Yagel, R.A. Miller, and G.L. Kinzel, "A Visualization Tool for Mechanical Design", Proceedings of Visualization'96, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 405-408.
  • S.C. Lu, A.B. Rebello, D.H. Cui, R. Yagel, R.A. Miller, and G.L. Kinzel, "A 3-D Contextual Shading Method for Visualization of Diecasting Defects" Proceedings of Visualization'96, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 401-404.
  • S.C. Lu, A.B. Rebello, R.A. Miller, G.L. Kinzel, and R. Yagel, "A Volume-Based Geometric Reasoning Approach for Diecastability Evaluation", Proceedings of the 15th ASME Computers in Engineering Conference 1995, Boston MA, September 1995, pp. 65-74.
  • R. Yagel, S.C. Lu, A.B. Rebello, and R.A. Miller, "Volume-Based Reasoning and Visualization of Diecastability", Proceedings of Visualization '95, Atlanta, GA, pp. 359-362.


    Volume Rendering: Speed

    Accelerated Volume Rendering

  • R. Yagel, D. M. Reed, A. Law, P. Shih, and N. Shareef, "Hardware Assisted Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids by Incremental Slicing", Proceedings 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 55-62.
  • K. Mueller, and R. Yagel, "Fast Perspective Volume Rendering with Splatting by Utilizing a Ray-Driven Approach", Proceedings 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 65-72.
  • R. Yagel, "Towards Real Time Volume Rendering", Proceedings of GRAPHICON'96, Vol. 1, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 1996, pp. 230-241.
  • L. Sobierajski, D. Cohen, A. Kaufman, R. Yagel and D. Acker, "A Fast Display Method for Volumetric Data," The Visual Computer, 10, 2, 1993, pages 116-124 (without original images).
  • R. Yagel and Z. Shi, "Accelerating Volume Animation by Space-Leaping," Proceedings of Visualization'93, San Jose, California, October 1993, pp. 62-69.
  • A. Kaufman, D. Cohen and R. Yagel, "Volumetric Graphics," IEEE Computer, 26, 7, July 1993, pages 51-64(without original illustrations and images).
  • R. Yagel and A. Kaufman, "Template-Based Volume Viewing", Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 11, Number 3, Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS'92, Cambridge, England, September 1992, pages 153-167, Blackwell Publishers.
  • R. Yagel, D. Cohen and A. Kaufman, "Discrete Ray Tracing", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 12, 9, October 1992, pages 19-28.
  • R. Yagel, "Realistic Display of Volumes," Proceedings of Medical Imaging VI: Image Capture, Formatting, and Display, Vol. 1653, pages 470-476, SPIE, Newport Beach, CA, February 1991.
  • Technical Report: Yagel, R. and K. Ciula, "High Quality Template-Based Volume Rendering", 29 pp. (OSU-CISRC-3/94-TR17).
  • Technical Report: Yagel, R. "Volume Rendering Polyhedral Grids by Incremental Slicing," 11 pp., (OSU-CISRC-10/93-TR35).

    Parallel Rendering

  • A. Law and R. Yagel, "The Active-Ray Approach to Rendering on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors", Proceedings of Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Architectures, SPDP `96, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1996.
  • A. Law and R. Yagel, "An Optimal Ray Traversal Scheme for Visualizing Colossal Medical Volumes", Visualization in Biomedical Computing, VBC'96, Hamburg, Germany, September 1996, pp. 43-52.
  • A. Law and R. Yagel, "Exploiting Spatial, Ray, and Frame Coherency for Efficient Parallel Volume Rendering", Proceedings of GRAPHICON'96, Vol. 2, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 1996, pp. 93-101.
  • A. Law and R. Yagel, "Multi-Frame Thrashless Ray Casting with Advancing Ray-Front", Proceedings Graphics Interface '96, Toronto, Canada, May 1996, pp. 70-77.
  • A. Law, R. Yagel, and D.N. Jayasimha, "VoxelFlow: A Parallel Volume Rendering Method for Scientific Visualization" ISCA Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 3, Num. 3, December 1996, pp. 138-148.
  • Law, A., R. Yagel, and D.N. Jayasimha, "VoxelFlow: A Parallel Volume Rendering Method for Scientific Visualization" Int. Conf. on Computer Applications in Engineering and Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1995, pp. 260-264.
  • A. Law and R. Yagel, "CellFlow: A Parallel Rendering Scheme for Distributed Memory Architectures", Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA `95), Athens GA, November 1995, pp. 3-12.
  • R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G. Wiet, and A. Law, "PARAVOL: Parallel Volume Rendering for Virtual Medicine", Proceedings of The Cray User Group Meeting, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 1995, pp. 131-138.
  • R. Yagel and R. Machiraju, "Data-Parallel Volume Rendering Algorithms", The Visual Computer, Vol. 11, Num. 6, 1995, pp. 319-338.
  • R. Machiraju and R. Yagel, "Efficient Feed-Forward Volume Rendering Techniques for Vector and Parallel Processors," SUPERCOMPUTING'93, Portland, Oregon, November 1993, pp. 699-708.
  • Technical Report: A. Law and R. Yagel, "A LA-COMA Implementation of Parallel Volume Rendering," 25 pp. (OSU-CISRC-4/95-TR18).


    Volume Rendering : Quality

    Error Analysis and Control

  • T. Möller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and R. Yagel, "Classification and Local Error Estimation of Interpolation and Derivative Filters for Volume Rendering", Proceedings 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 71-78.
  • R. Machiraju, E, Swan, and R. Yagel "Spatial Domain Characterization and Control of Reconstruction Errors," Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Dublin, Ireland, June 1995, pp. 33-44.
  • R. Machiraju and R. Yagel, "Accuracy Control of Reconstruction Errors in Volume Slicing", Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Visualization, Atlanta, GA, pp. 50-57.
  • R. Machiraju and R. Yagel, "Reconstruction Error Characterization and Control: A Sampling Theory Approach", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 2, Num. 4, December 1996, pp. 364-378.
  • Technical Report: R. Machiraju, A. Gaddipati and R. Yagel, "Wavelet Based Automatic Identification of Structures in Medical Datasets",

    Volume Shading

  • R. Yagel, D. Cohen and A. Kaufman, "Normal Estimation in 3D Discrete Space," The Visual Computer, 8, 5-6, June 1992, pp. 278-291.


    VR and Graphics

    Applications: Medical

  • J. McDonald, R. Yagel, P. Schmalbrock, D. Stredney, D. Reed, and D. Sessanna, "Visualization of Compression Neuropathies through Volume Deformation", Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 5, San Diego, CA, January 1997.
  • R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G.J. Wiet, P. Schmalbrock, D.J. Sessanna, Y. Kurzion, E. Swan, N. Shareef, J. Smith, and D.E. Schuller "Cranial Base Tumor Visualization through Multimodal Imaging Integration and Interactive Display" the 4th annual meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance, New York, April 1996.
  • G.J. Wiet, D. Stredney, R. Yagel, E. Swan, N. Shareef, P. Schmalbrock, K. Right, J. Smith, and D.E. Schuller, "Cranial Base Tumor Visualization through High Performance Computing", Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 4, Health Care in the Information Age, San Diego, CA, January 1996, pp. 43-59.
  • D.Y.Y. Yun, H.M. C. Garcia, S.K. Mun, J.E. Rogers, W.G. Tohme, W.E. Carlson, S. May, and R. Yagel, ""Three-Dimensional Volume Visualization in Remote Radiation Treatment Planning"", IS&T/SPIE's International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis III, IS&T/SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2656, February 1996.
  • D. Stredny, R. Yagel, S. May, and M. Torello, "Supercomputer Assisted Brain Visualization with an Extended Ray Tracer," Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization, Boston, MA, October 1992, pages 33-38, ACM SIGGRAPH.

    Applications: Surgery Simulation (VR)

  • G.J. Wiet, R. Yagel, D. Stredney, P. Schmalbrock, D.J. Sessanna, Y. Kurzion, L. Rosenberg, M. Levin, and K. Martin, "A Volumetric Approach to Virtual Simulation of Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery", Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 5, San Diego, CA, January 1997.
  • C.V. Edmond, D. Heskamp, D. Sluis, D. Stredney, G.J. Wiet, D.J. Sessanna, R. Yagel, S.J. Weghorst, P. Oppenheimer, J. Miller, M. Levin, and L. Rosenberg, "Simulation for ENT Endoscopic Surgical Training", Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 5, San Diego, CA, January 1997.
  • R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G. J. Wiet, P. Schmalbrock, L. Rosenberg, D. J. Sessanna, and Y. Kurzion, "Building a Virtual Environment for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Simulation", Computers & Graphics, Vol. 20, No. 6, December, 1996, pp. 813-823.
  • R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G.J. Wiet, P. Schmalbrock, L. Rosenberg, D.J. Sessanna, Y. Kurzion, and S. King, "Multisensory Platform for Surgical Simulation", IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1996 - VRAIS'96 Santa Clara CA, March 1996, pp. 72-78.
  • D. Stredney, J. McDonald, R. Yagel, G. Wiet, E. Sindelar, and E. Swan, "Virtual Simulations Through High Performance Computing", (Postscript 53k) Proceedings Medicine Meets Virtual Reality II, January 1994, pp. 212-215.
  • R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G. J. Wiet, P. Schmalbrock, L. Rosenberg, D. J. Sessanna, and Y. Kurzion, "Towards Real-Time Multisensory Virtual Surgery", submitted to IEEE Multimedia, June 1996.

    Walkthrough Complex Environments

  • R. Yagel and W. Ray, "Visibility Computation for Efficient Walkthrough Complex Environments," PRESENCE, Vol.5, No. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 1-16.
  • Technical Report: Yagel, R. and Ray, W. "Visibility Computation for Interactive Visualization of Complex Enclosed Environments" , 15 pp. (OSU-CISRC-3/94-TR16).


    Miscellaneous

    Segmentation

  • A. Gaddipati, J. F. Cornhill, E. Hendrick, and R. Yagel, "An Efficient Method for Automated Segmentation of Histochemically Stained Slides", Proceedings of IEEE EBMS 17th annual Conference, EMBC 95, Montreal, Canada, 1995, pp. 579-580.
  • N. Shareef, D. Wang, and R. Yagel, "Segmentation of Medical Data Using Locally Excitatory Globally Inhibitory Oscillator Networks", World Congress on Neural Networks WCNN '96, San Diego, California, September 1996.

    Applications: CFD

  • R. Yagel, D.S. Ebert, J. Scott, and Y. Kurzion "Grouping Volume Renderers for Enhanced Visualization in Computational Fluid Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 1, Num. 2, July 1995, pp. 117-132.
  • D. S. Ebert, R. Yagel, J. Scott, and Y. Kurzion, "Volume Rendering Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics Visualization", Visualization'94, Washington, DC, October 1994, pp. 232-239.

    Others

  • R. Shekhar, E. Fayad, R. Yagel, and F. Cornhill, "Octree-based Decimation of Marching Cubes Surfaces" Proceedings of Visualization'96, San Francisco, CA, September 1996, pp. 335-342.
  • R. Yagel and J. Meeker, "Priority Driven Ray Tracing", The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation". , Vol. 8, Num. 1, January 1997, pp. 17-32.
  • J. Fowler and R. Yagel, "Lossless Compression of Volume Data," The 1994 Symposium on Volume Visualization, Washington DC, October 1994, pp. 43-50.
  • R. Yagel, "The Flipping Cube: A Device for Rotating 3D Rasters," Eurographics'91 Hardware Workshop, Vienna, Austria, September 1991, to be published in "Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware VI", Springer-Verlag, 1991.
  • Technical Report: T. Möller and R. Yagel, "Efficient Rasterization of Implicit Functions", 21 pp. (OSU-CISRC-11/95-TR49).

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