Representing 3D regions with rational Gaussian surfaces

Marcel P. Jackowski; Ardeshir Goshtasby; Martin Satter

doi:10.1117/12.387685

6 June 2000 Representing 3D regions with rational Gaussian surfaces

Marcel P. Jackowski, Ardeshir Goshtasby, Martin Satter

Proceedings Volume 3979, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387685
Event: Medical Imaging 2000, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The 3-D regions obtained as a result of a volume image segmentation often need to be geometrically modeled and rendered. In this paper, use of rational Gaussian (RaG) surfaces in modeling and rendering 3-D regions is described. A new parametrization technique is introduced that morphs a sphere in a coarse-to-fine fashion to a 3-D region. Knowing parameters of points on the sphere, parameters of voxels on the region are determined. Having the parameters of the voxels, a RaG surface is then fitted to the voxels to obtain a smooth representation for the region. Examples of the proposed representation on various 3-D regions are presented.

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Marcel P. Jackowski, Ardeshir Goshtasby, and Martin Satter "Representing 3D regions with rational Gaussian surfaces", Proc. SPIE 3979, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing, (6 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387685

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