VAVframe: A New Concept in Platform Design

Existing medical visualization platforms share common features such as user extensibility, a graphical user interface to construct network of computational modules and interaction with the application execution. However, all of these platforms oversee the communication problem between the end-users (MDs - medical doctors) and the developers (engineers). This avoids utilizing the potential of such platforms in full. VAVframe (volumetric analysis and visualization framework) proposes a new intermediary user group between the above mentioned two user classes to solve this problem to maximize the benefits of such a platform. This new class of users are called application designers (ADs). They enable VAVframe, in addition to providing conventional platforms´ functionality, to respond to the MDs´ needs in a fast and efficient way