Publications

@inproceedings{galloUserFriendlyInspectionMedical2008,

title = {User-Friendly Inspection of Medical Image Data Volumes in Virtual Environments},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.1109/CISIS.2008.33},

isbn = {0-7695-3109-1},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-03-01},

booktitle = {CISIS '08: Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems},

pages = {749--754},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA},

address = {Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain},

abstract = {In many fields of medicine interactive virtual environments can offer enhanced visualization and manipulation of three-dimensional objects, reconstructed from high-quality scans of human organs. Stereoscopic systems provide users with a natural depth perception about the spatial nature of the structures of interest; moreover advanced user-friendly interfaces, by allowing a natural and intuitive interaction, can strengthen the feeling of being immersed, so to offer clinicians the possibility to act how they do in the real life. In order to enhance the sense of realism specially in medical computer-assisted education, training and diagnostic fields, it is necessary to have a system in which every action can be executed directly into the 3D world without switching to a 2D visualization mode. In this paper we present new interaction techniques to select and extract a volume-of-interest (VOI) in a semi-immersive interactive environment, by using a user-friendly wireless interface, suitable to implement pointing and manipulation features with 6 DOF.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VOI},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{depietroNewApproachHandling2007,

title = {A New Approach for Handling 3D Medical Data in an Immersive Environment},

author = { Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo and Ivana Marra and Carmen Vanzanella},

doi = {10.1109/VECIMS.2007.4373929},

isbn = {978-1-4244-0820-7},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-06-01},

booktitle = {VECIMS 2007. IEEE Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2007},

pages = {63--66},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Ostuni, Italy},

abstract = {Medical Imaging applications use images coming from different sources such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), to generate 3D data. Starting from these volumetric data, applications reconstruct 3D models of anatomical structures which could be manipulated and analyzed. In this paper we present a new approach for the visualization and interaction with volumetric datasets in a fully immersive environment. It allows to handle the reconstructed models directly within the virtual scene; in particular a technique is described for outlining the Volume Of Interest (VOI) functionality in a three-dimensional dataset for a visual interactive inspection and manipulation of the organ of interest.},

keywords = {Healthcare, Medical Imaging, VOI, Volume Rendering, VTK},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}