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Feature detection and display are the essential goals of the visualization process. Most volume visualization software achieves these goals by mapping properties of sampled intensity values and their derivatives to color and opacity. However, by considering samples in isolation, it is difficult to visualize features that are not surface-based. In this work, we expand the basis of classification to broader neighborhoods centered around each voxel. Our approach allows users to enter predicate-based hypotheses about relational patterns in the local neighborhoods' frequency distributions and render visualizations that show how neighborhoods match the predicates (illustrated above). We have built a simple graphical user interface for forming and testing queries interactively and we describe a volume rendering algorithm tailored for investigating statistical queries. The query framework readily applies to spatial datasets from arbitrary domains and supports queries on time variant and multifield data. Users can directly query for classes of features previously inaccessible in general feature detection tools... Read more

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