A method of volume rendering includes obtaining data representative of a first composited plane of one or more anatomical structures and calculating data of a second composited plane as a function of a first composited plane. The data of the second composited plane is indicative of a measure of depth of the one or more anatomical structures along respective ray cast lines. The method also includes determining depth weighted color values between two different colorization palettes as a function of the measure of depths of the second composited plane. The determined depth weighted color values are applied to the first composited plane for producing a volume rendering image with depth weighted colorization.