Publications

@inproceedings{galloNaturalInterfaceVirtual2008,

title = {Toward a Natural Interface to Virtual Medical Imaging Environments},

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

doi = {10.1145/1385569.1385651},

isbn = {978-1-60558-141-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-05-01},

booktitle = {AVI '08 Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},

pages = {429--432},

publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},

address = {Napoli, Italy},

abstract = {Immersive Virtual Reality environments are suitable to support activities related to medicine and medical practice. The immersive visualization of information-rich 3D objects, coming from patient scanned data, provides clinicians with a clear perception of depth and shapes. However, to benefit from immersive visualization in medical imaging, where inspection and manipulation of volumetric data are fundamental tasks, medical experts have to be able to act in the virtual environment by exploiting their real life abilities. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to take into account user skills and needs so as to design and implement usable and accessible human-computer interaction interfaces. In this paper we present a natural interface for a semi-immersive virtual environment. Such interface is based on an off-the-shelf handheld wireless device and a speech recognition component, and provides clinicians with intuitive interaction modes for inspecting volumetric medical data.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VTK, Wireless},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{gallo_toward_2008,

title = {Toward a Natural Interface to Virtual Medical Imaging Environments},

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

doi = {10.1145/1385569.1385651},

isbn = {978-1-60558-141-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-05-01},

booktitle = {AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces},

pages = {429–432},

publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},

address = {Napoli, Italy},

abstract = {Immersive Virtual Reality environments are suitable to support activities related to medicine and medical practice. The immersive visualization of information-rich 3D objects, coming from patient scanned data, provides clinicians with a clear perception of depth and shapes. However, to benefit from immersive visualization in medical imaging, where inspection and manipulation of volumetric data are fundamental tasks, medical experts have to be able to act in the virtual environment by exploiting their real life abilities. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to take into account user skills and needs so as to design and implement usable and accessible human-computer interaction interfaces. In this paper we present a natural interface for a semi-immersive virtual environment. Such interface is based on an off-the-shelf handheld wireless device and a speech recognition component, and provides clinicians with intuitive interaction modes for inspecting volumetric medical data.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VTK, Wireless},

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}

}

@inproceedings{de_pietro_new_2007,

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}

}