Abstract
As tractography datasets continue to grow in size, there is a need for improved visualization methods that can capture structural patterns occurring in large tractography datasets. Transparency is an increasingly important aspect of finding these patterns in large datasets but is inaccessible to tractography due to performance limitations. In this paper, we propose a rendering method that achieves performant rendering of transparent streamlines, allowing for exploration of deeper brain structures interactively. The method achieves this through a novel approximate order-independent transparency method that utilizes voxelization and caching view-dependent line orders per voxel. We compare our transparency method with existing tractography visualization software in terms of performance and the ability to capture deeper structures in the dataset.
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Osman, B., Pereira, M., van de Wetering, H., Chamberland, M. (2023). Voxlines: Streamline Transparency Through Voxelization and View-Dependent Line Orders. In: Karaman, M., Mito, R., Powell, E., Rheault, F., Winzeck, S. (eds) Computational Diffusion MRI. CDMRI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47292-3_9
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