Illustration motifs for effective medical volume illustration

Through a collaboration with a trained medical illustrator and medical visualization developer, a framework for use in various medical illustration tasks was designed. The resultant framework is a combination of existing volume visualization algorithms; new extensions to volume rendering techniques; a high-level, more natural user interface; and a domain-specific illustration specification framework. To demonstrate the illustration capabilities of the system, four representative data sets were used for illustration: the visible woman feet CT data set; a contrast enhanced abdominal CT data set; a temporal bone micro CT data set; and a virtual colonoscopy data set. All images were generated by loading the appropriate motif and adjusting rendering parameters on the interface's three levels.