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
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;
