Abstract
Physicians take advantage of desktop and mobile software to perform their work, although current visualization systems still rely on interaction approaches that do not go beyond 2D interfaces. The advent of portable devices, such as tablets, coupled with the growing need to explore and apply 3D image manipulation techniques, motivated our team to develop a tool for 3D medical image exploration and visualization using tangible and spatially aware mobile touch interfaces running on mobile devices. Our approach was validated with user tests using a medical image visualization prototype. Our results show that for 3D manipulation, mobile devices can improve the experience in comparison with traditional techniques. Testing the proposed system with healthcare professionals will be performed as future work.
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All authors are thankful for the financial support given by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). In particular, the last author thanks for the postdoctoral grant SFRH/BPD/97449/2013. This work was also partially supported by national funds through FCT with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013 and IT-MEDEX PTDC/EEI-SII/6038/2014.
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Pires, V., Belo, M., Sousa, C., Jorge, J., Lopes, D.S. (2018). Interactive Tablets for 3D Medical Image Exploration. In: Tavares, J., Natal Jorge, R. (eds) VipIMAGE 2017. ECCOMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_62
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