Using 3D to visualise medical data

• Authors: Monica Tavanti
• Venue: Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
• Year: 2002

Retrieving and managing medical information is a major problem for users, due to the massive and heterogeneous production of available data. One way of handling the complexity of this special information context could be to find alternative ways of structuring medical data. In this paper a database containing medical information about diseases is presented. The database implements a new approach, using a clustered organization of the data, that tries to provide consistency and homogeneity in the information so as to effectively support physicians and experts in the medical field. The database also implements a temporal and dynamic description of diseases, called the "temporal disease simulator," which can easily be visualised through a friendly three-dimensional interface. The paper summarises the specifications of the database and illustrates the design process of the interface for the "temporal disease simulator," describing its main features.