Volume-Rendering-Based Interactive 3D Measurement for Quantitative Analysis of 3D Medical Images

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Frames/second</td><td align="center">Rough rendering during manipulation</td><td align="center">Refined rendering</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Ray casting</td><td align="center">28.3</td><td align="center">1.2</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Splatting</td><td align="center">9.1</td><td align="center">0.5</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Shear warp</td><td align="center">37.4</td><td align="center">2.6</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Rendering efficiency of the volume clipping. It can be seen that interactive rendering rate can be achieved. It’s worth noting that all the volume renderers in this paper are software-based. The rendering speed can be further accelerated if the volume renderers are implemented using the GPU.

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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Table 1: Volume-Rendering-Based Interactive 3D Measurement for Quantitative Analysis of 3D Medical Images 