Clinical Applications of Computer Aided Visualization
Journal of Visualization
Some usability issues of augmented and mixed reality for e-health applications in the medical domain
USAB'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Human-computer interaction and usability engineering of the Austrian computer society conference on HCI and usability for medicine and health care
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Computer graphic applications in medicine can deliver dramatic returns to our health care investment. They can also be wasteful, irrelevant and misleading. When are these applications improvements? When are they mistakes? These are questions best asked frequently and in as many ways as possible but every legitimate assessment must have some understanding of their medical context. That is, how is the original medical data generated and how are the tools of computer graphics applied? This tutorial provides a brief description of the data formats and acquisition characteristics of medical date - the raw material for the computer graphics techniques that follow. In addition, we examine several common application areas of computer graphics in medicine and note requirements specific to this specialty. In what follows we introduce each of the major medical image producing modalities, then examine the requirements surgical procedures demand from the medical applications of computer graphics. The overall medical market is briefly discussed then typical applications are described. Relatively new, interventional imaging techniques are also outlined.