Virtual reality and multimedia human-computer interaction in medicine

Author

Englmeier, K.-H. ; Krapichler, C. ; Haubner, M. ; Seemann, Martin ; Reiser, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Med. Inf. und Systemforschung, GSF-Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit, Oberschleissheim, Germany

fYear

1998

fDate

7-9 Dec 1998

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

202

Abstract

Tomography devices produce high-quality scans of the human anatomy. While conventional computer-aided image analysis falls back upon editing tomograms layer by layer, virtual environments offer enhanced visualization, image analysis and manipulation of the three-dimensional (3D) data. In this paper, the application of multimodal, user-oriented human-computer interaction is presented. Hand gesture recognition is a major component of the interface, completed by speech understanding and further units like a 6-DOF mouse or acoustic feedback. 3D image segmentation and virtual endoscopy are typical examples to demonstrate virtual environments in medicine

Keywords

gesture recognition; image segmentation; man-machine systems; medical computing; medicine; mouse controllers (computers); multimedia systems; speech-based user interfaces; virtual reality; 3D data; 3D image segmentation; 6-DOF mouse; acoustic feedback; computer-aided image analysis; hand gesture recognition; high-quality scans; human anatomy; image analysis; image manipulation; interface; medicine; multimedia human-computer interaction; multimodal human-computer interaction; speech understanding; tomograms editing; tomography devices; user-oriented human-computer interaction; virtual endoscopy; virtual environments; virtual reality; visualization; Application software; Back; Data visualization; Human anatomy; Image analysis; Image recognition; Speech recognition; Tomography; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 1998 IEEE Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Redondo Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4919-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.1998.738934

Filename

738934