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Data Visualization 2001 pp 45–54Cite as

Multiresolution Maximum Intensity Volume Rendering by Morphological Pyramids

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We propose a multiresolution representation for maximum intensity projection (MIP) volume rendering, based on morphological pyramids which allow progressive refinement and have the property of perfect reconstruction. The pyramidal analysis and synthesis operators are composed of morphological erosion and dilation, combined with dyadic downsampling for analysis and dyadic upsampling for synthesis. The structure of the multiresolution MIP representation is very similar to wavelet splatting, the main differences being that (i) linear summation of voxel values is replaced by maximum computation, and (ii) linear wavelet filters are replaced by (nonlinear) morphological filters.

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  1. Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, AV Groningen, The Netherlands

    Jos B. T. M. Roerdink

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    David S. Ebert

  2. Data Mining & Visualization, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

    Jean M. Favre

  3. Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, ETH-Zentrum, IFW, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ronald Peikert

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Roerdink, J.B.T.M. (2001). Multiresolution Maximum Intensity Volume Rendering by Morphological Pyramids. In: Ebert, D.S., Favre, J.M., Peikert, R. (eds) Data Visualization 2001. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6215-6_6

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