TY - GEN
T1 - Robot-assisted medical visualization with floating images
AU - Markon, Sandor
AU - Maekawa, Satoshi
AU - Onat, Ahmet
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Accessing volumetric medical data requires advanced visualization techniques. One approach is to show slices in situ, by projecting images into space at the proper position. We propose using floating images, that is, undistorted real images of displays, appearing at the desired position and orientation. Such floating images are made possible by the new optical device 'DCRA' invented at NICT in Japan. To enhance the freedom of the user, we have developed a robot-assisted interactive visualization system, where the user can 'hold' the image slice in her/his hand, and freely change its position and orientation, thus inspect any part of the volumetric data set as desired. The hand position is detected by a stereo camera and image processing. We describe the structure and operation of our system, and show samples of its usage.
AB - Accessing volumetric medical data requires advanced visualization techniques. One approach is to show slices in situ, by projecting images into space at the proper position. We propose using floating images, that is, undistorted real images of displays, appearing at the desired position and orientation. Such floating images are made possible by the new optical device 'DCRA' invented at NICT in Japan. To enhance the freedom of the user, we have developed a robot-assisted interactive visualization system, where the user can 'hold' the image slice in her/his hand, and freely change its position and orientation, thus inspect any part of the volumetric data set as desired. The hand position is detected by a stereo camera and image processing. We describe the structure and operation of our system, and show samples of its usage.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84874259544
U2 - 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.147
DO - 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.147
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874259544
SN - 9780769547992
T3 - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012
SP - 810
EP - 814
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012
Y2 - 26 August 2012 through 29 August 2012
ER -