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The medical exploration toolkit: an efficient support for visual computing in surgical planning and training.

Submitted by holger on Tue, 2010/02/23 - 16:58
TitleThe medical exploration toolkit: an efficient support for visual computing in surgical planning and training.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsMühler, K, Tietjen, C, Ritter, F, Preim, B
JournalIEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Volume16
Issue1
Pagination133-46
Date Published2010 Jan-Feb
Abstract

Application development is often guided by the usage of software libraries and toolkits. For medical applications, the toolkits currently available focus on image analysis and volume rendering. Advance interactive visualizations and user interface issues are not adequately supported. Hence, we present a toolkit for application development in the field of medical intervention planning, training, and presentation--the MEDICALEXPLORATIONTOOLKIT (METK). The METK is based on the rapid prototyping platform MeVisLab and offers a large variety of facilities for an easy and efficient application development process. We present dedicated techniques for advanced medical visualizations, exploration, standardized documentation, adn interface widgets for common tasks. These include, e.g., advanced animation facilities, viewpoint selection, several illustrative rendering techniques, and new techniques for object selection in 3D surface models. No extended programming skills are needed for application building, since a graphical programming approach can be used. the toolkit is freely available and well documented to facilitate the use and extension of the toolkit.

Alternate JournalIEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
PubMed ID19910667
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