The roles of perception for volume visualization and designing volume visualization methods based on perceptual factors
Jianlong J. Zhou · 2005
In the context of medical volume visualization, it is useful to study how effectively the visualization depicts anatomical structures and how well features of anatomical structures can be discerned in order to make decisions. So it is important to know what factors affect the understanding of rendered images and further to design more effective rendering algorithms under considering these factors. However, they are not fully evaluated. These are important for users to get better understanding of a 3D data set, and to help to develop effective visualization methods. Because visualization renditions are perceived through human visual perception, visual perception has important effects on mental models. This paper aims to analyze the roles of perception for volume visualization and use the perceptual analysis results to design volume visualization methods.