Part One (Chapters 1~4)
Chapter 1 Animating by example
1.1 The significance of the animating-by-example method
1.2 Survevs of related existine research and overview of our method
1.2.1 Surveys of related existing research
1.2.2 Overview of our method
1.3 The main steps of the core algorithm
1.3.1 Sketch based mapping
1.3.2 Differential mean value coordinates for mesh deformation
1.3.3 Stitching and smoothing meshes
1.3.4 Interpolating between key frames
1.3.5 Mapping 2D animations to 3D characters
1.3.6 Solving the minimization problem for smoothing mesh
1.4 Results of the method
1.5 Conclusions of this chapter
Chapter 2 A new method of interactive marker-driven free-form mesh deformation
2.1 The related works of free form mesh deformation
2.2 Overview of the new method of free-form mesh deformation
2.3 The main steps of interactive marker-driven free-form mesh deformation
2.3.1 The algorithm of shape deformation
2.3.2 The algorithm of mesh smoothing
2.3.3 Interpolating between two key frames
2.4 Conclusions of this chapter
Chapter 3 As-rigid-as-possible deformation clone
3.1 The related works of deformation clone
3.2 Overview of the method
3.3 The algorithm of deformation clone
3.4 The and conclusions of the method
3.4.1 The results of the method proposed in this chapter
3.4.2 The conclusions of the method proposed in this Chapter
Chapter 4 A fast trapeziums-based method for soft shadow volumes
4.1 Previous works of soft shadow volumes
4.2 Obtaining soft shadows with ray tracing
4.2.1 Finding out all global potential silhouette edges
4.2.2 Getting local potentíial silhouette edges and exact silhouette edges
4.2.3 Projecting, modifying and spliting silhouette edges
4.2.4 Constructing trapeziums to determine the visibility of light source
4.3 Results and conclusions of the algorithm
Part Two (Chapters 5 and 6)
Chapter 5 Interactive mesh segmentation and contour optimization for liver & tumors
5.1 The related works of liver and tumors segmentation
5.2 Outline of the approach
5.3 Main steps of the approach
5.3.1 Finding chest bones
5.3.2 Constructing chest mesh
5.3.3 Constructing liver mesh
5.3.4 Extended intelligent scissors
5.3.5 Liver segmentation scheme
5.4 Experiments and results
5.5 Discussion and conclusions of this chapter
Chapter 6 Design and development of smart PACS based on 3D intelligent scissors
6.1 Design goals
6.2 Feasibility analvsis
6.3 Main development content
6.3.1 Optimization of 3D intelligent scissors algorithm
6.3.2 Development of smart PACS system
6.3.3 System architecture
6.4 System development and implementation
6.4.1 System modules
6.4.2 Interface and tips of smart PACS
6.5 Video of academic results created by smart PACS
Appendix 1: Sparse matrix algorithms and software
Appendix 2: Solving the minimization problem
Appendix 3: Detailed evaluation results of 40 cases
Appendix 4: Detailed evaluation results of 10 cases downloaded from MICCAI database
Appendix 5: Introduction to DICOM
Appendix 6: Project file format of smart PACS
References
Index