METHOD FOR EVALUATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL RENDERING SYSTEMS

A method of automatically evaluating settings for three dimensional rendering engines establishes a mathematical equivalency to image quality such as may be RMS error. With this mathematical index, a gold standard setting may be established and used to compare clinical images with other settings. The image qualities for different settings may be fit to a functional model so as to provide rapid assessment of the affect on image quality of parameter adjustments. The time-cost for producing the image may also be fit to a surface to allow more complex time/image quality trade offs to be realized.