Title
A Tangible Medical Image Processing Assistant with Haptic Modality
Abstract
Recently, the progresses of human-computer interface technology implemented on tablet PCs (personal computers) enables medical workers to utilize them for communications between patients and doctors at the time of condition analysis and diagnosis. Because general patients cannot understand medical images alone, the technology assists them to intuitively understand the images and easily communicate with doctors. We propose a tangible medical image processing assistant with hap tic modality. Our main goal is to construct a method allowing users to easily interacting and exploring medical images with hap tic modality. Diagnostic imaging with a series of CT scan images is very important way for doctors to detect problems. Because the doctors need to view a huge number of high resolution images in a day, excessive burdens on their vision become a very serious problem. We propose a new method of assisting the diagnostic imaging with integrated visual and hap tic channels. The proposed method extracts some visual features observed in the images and transforms to hap tic parameters. Then, the system visually and haptically notifies the doctors for possible existence of suspicious findings in the images. It calls their attention to focus on the specific images to narrow the differential diagnosis of the images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CISIS.2012.125
CISIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
diagnostic imaging,hap tic channel,tangible medical image processing,medical worker,medical image,tic parameter,haptic modality,hap tic modality,processing assistant,differential diagnosis,tangible medical image,new method,microcomputers,feature extraction,human computer interaction,vibrations,computed tomography,haptic interface
Computer vision,Medical imaging,Computer science,Image processing,Feature extraction,Computed tomography,Artificial intelligence,Haptic technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiaqing Lin1123.58
Hiroaki Nishino220242.91
Tsuneo Kagawa312125.25
Kouichi Utsumiya418131.31