A Comprehensive Survey of Isocontouring Methods: Applications, Limitations and Perspectives
- This paper provides a comprehensive overview of approaches to the determination of isocontours and isosurfaces from given data sets. Different algorithms are reported in the literature for this purpose, which originate from various application areas, such as computer graphics or medical imaging procedures. In all these applications, the challenge is to extract surfaces with a specific isovalueThis paper provides a comprehensive overview of approaches to the determination of isocontours and isosurfaces from given data sets. Different algorithms are reported in the literature for this purpose, which originate from various application areas, such as computer graphics or medical imaging procedures. In all these applications, the challenge is to extract surfaces with a specific isovalue from a given characteristic, so called isosurfaces. These different application areas have given rise to solution approaches that all solve the problem of isocontouring in their own way. Based on the literature, the following four dominant methods can be identified: the marching cubes algorithms, the tessellation-based algorithms, the surface nets algorithms and the ray tracing algorithms. With regard to their application, it can be seen that the methods are mainly used in the fields of medical imaging, computer graphics and the visualization of simulation results. In our work, we provide a broad and compact overview of the common methods that are currently used in terms of isocontouring with respect to certain criteria and their individual limitations. In this context, we discuss the individual methods and identify possible future research directions in the field of isocontouring.…
Document Type: | Article (reviewed) |
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Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/8699 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | A Comprehensive Survey of Isocontouring Methods: Applications, Limitations and Perspectives |
Author: | Keno Jann BüscherORCiD, Jan Philipp DegelStaff MemberORCiDGND, Jan OellerichORCiD |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Date of first Publication: | 2024/02/15 |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Publisher: | MDPI |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 24 |
Article Number: | 83 |
Parent Title (English): | Algorithms |
Editor: | Jesper Jansson |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 2 |
ISSN: | 1999-4893 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/a17020083 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Forschung / INES - Institut für nachhaltige Energiesysteme |
Fakultät Elektrotechnik, Medizintechnik und Informatik (EMI) (ab 04/2019) | |
Institutes: | Bibliografie |
Tag: | 65D17; 65D18; 68U05; computer graphics; contour lines; image processing; isocontouring; isocontours; isosurfaces; level set; marching cubes; marching tetrahedra; ray tracing; surface nets; tessellation | Formale Angaben |
Relevance: | Wiss. Zeitschriftenartikel reviewed: Listung in Master Journal List |
Open Access: | Open Access |
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Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |