Title :
SenseViewer: A unified rendering interface of visual and haptic cues in medical images
Author :
Bing Nan Li ; Xiang Shan ; Jing Qin ; Weimin Huang ; Ning An
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Hefei Univ. of Technol., Hefei, China
Abstract :
We propose a new unified rendering interface - SenseViewer - that allows users to annotate and label visual, auditory and in particular haptic cues to medical images. This new interface may support pre-operation planning, surgical training and medical robot guidance better. Users can touch and feel virtual organs and tissues with haptics. The visual and auditory cues are helpful to define optimal paths for planning and guidance. SenseViewer is one of the earliest dedicated interfaces for rendering visual and haptic cues in medical images. Moreover, it employs magnetic resonance elastography for quantitative soft tissue viscoelasticity that makes haptic cues more realistic. SenseViewer will be further enhanced and integrated into our innovative Image-guided Robot Assisted Training (IRAS) system.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical MRI; control engineering computing; haptic interfaces; medical image processing; medical robotics; rendering (computer graphics); surgery; viscoelasticity; IRAS system; SenseViewer; dedicated interfaces; haptic cues; image-guided robot assisted training system; magnetic resonance elastography; medical images; medical robot guidance; preoperation planning; quantitative soft tissue viscoelasticity; rendering interface; surgical training; virtual organs; virtual tissues; visual cue; Biomedical imaging; Haptic interfaces; Rendering (computer graphics); Robots; Three-dimensional displays; Training; Visualization; Computer-aided surgical training; cue rendering; haptic cues; magnetic resonance elastography;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739797
