Immersive electronic books for surgical training

Author

Welch, Greg ; State, Andrei ; Ilie, Adrian ; Low, Kok-Lim ; Lastra, Anselmo ; Cairns, Bruce ; Towles, Herman ; Fuchs, Henry ; Yang, Ruigang ; Becker, Sascha ; Russo, Daniel ; Funaro, Jesse ; Van Dam, Andries

Author_Institution

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Volume

12

Issue

3

fYear

2005

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

35

Abstract

Immersive electronic books (IEBooks) for surgical training will let surgeons explore previous surgical procedures in 3D. The authors describe the techniques and tools for creating a preliminary IEBook, embodying some of the basic concepts.

Keywords

biomedical education; computer based training; electronic publishing; interactive systems; medical computing; surgery; 3D computer graphics systems; 3D graphics technique; FireWire; PGR; apprenticeship environment; camera cube; education program; electronic book; electronic books; interaction device; medical training; surgical training; Books; Cameras; Certification; Education; Educational institutions; Electronic publishing; Firewire; Medical simulation; Surgery; Surges; 3D reconstruction; annotation; computer vision; electronic book; head-mounted display; immersive; projector display; surgical training;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMUL.2005.48

Filename

1490494