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There are two important factors to visualize ultrasound datasets for volume ray casting method. The first is an efficient method to skip over empty space and the second is an adequate noise filtering method. We propose a noise-insensitive hierarchical min-max octree. In preprocessing stage, we generate a filtered dataset and make a hierarchical min-max octree from the dataset. In rendering step, we...