High-Performance Volume Rendering for 3D Heart Visualization

Cardiovascular diseases are the the leading cause of death and disability in the world. Non-invasive tecniques are required to reduce the number of deaths as well as the patients quality of life. These techniques usually rely on 3D visualization of MRI or CT data. In this work we describe how improved volume rendering techniques, combined with graphics cards programming can provide interactive visualization of the heart internal structures. Our main focus here is to provide doctors with high-performance 3D images for evaluating patient heart anatomy and performance. Our idea is to take full advantage of the triangle-rendering hardware to provide interactive frame rates.

@InProceedings { MMEDBF06,
  author       = "Maximo, Andr\'e and Marroquim, Ricardo and Esperan\c{c}a, Claudio and Santos, Rodrigo dos and Bentes, Cristiana
                  and Farias, Ricardo",
  title        = "High-Performance Volume Rendering for 3D Heart Visualization",
  booktitle    = "Workshop on High Performance Computing in the Life Sciences - HPCLife",
  year         = "2006",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2006/MMEDBF06"
}