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G. Larrazabal, P. Escalona, G. Montilla, V. Torrealba, M. Acuna & V. Barrios

Abstract

Parallel volume projection in 3D medical images G. Larrazabal,* P. Escalona,* G. Montilla,* V. Torrealba,* M. Acuna,^ V. Barrios** "Departamento de Computation, Facultad Experimental de Cienciasy Tecnologia, Universidad de Carabobo, Apdo. 3155, El Trigal, Valencia 02002, Venezuela ^Grupo de Procesamiento de Imdgenes, Centra de Investigaciones Medicas y Biotecnologicas, Facultad de Ingenieria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Apdo. 3155, El Trigal, Valencia 02002, Venezuela ABSTRACT This paper presents a Parallel Volume Rendering algorithm which was applied in 3D Ecocardiographic and TAG images. This algorithm used a Heuristic partitioning method which distributes both the data and computations to processing units to achieved fast, high quality rendering. The processing nodes perform local Ray Casting of their subvolume simultaneously. No communication between processing units is needed during this local Ray Casting process. A subimages is gen

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