一种空间自适应采样和递归线性估计的光线投射算法

光线投射算法因其成像质量高而广泛地用于虚拟内窥镜系统,但成像速度非常缓慢.为此,本文提出了一种自适应采样和递归估计的成像加速算法.首先,根据查找法快速得到的梯度和光线方向信息,自适应地调整采样步长,使得该算法能够以大步长快速跳过体素值变化缓慢的区域,同时在体素值变化剧烈或快接近等值面的区域,能够以小步长进行搜索.其次,以递归线性插值的方法估计投射光线与实际等值面的交点,用于补偿大步长导致交点精度的降低,此举能够显著地提高成像质量.实验结果表明,该算法在保证绘制图像质量的前提下,提高了体绘制速度,取得了比较满意的效果.

A Spatial Adaptive Sampling and Iterative Linear Estimation-based Ray Casting Algorithm

Ray casting is widely applied in virtual endoscope systems,due to high quality images rendered by the algorithm,but it is time-consuming.So we present a ray casting algorithm based on spatial adaptive sampling and iterative linear estimation.First,according to the gradient of volumetric data quickly obtained by a lookup table and ray direction,the algorithm automatically adjusts searching steps along the rays.The algorithm quickly traverses regions containing small variation of voxel values at large steps,a...