Title
Using Web Services as Functional-Level Plug Ins for Interactive 3D Medical Visualisation
Abstract
Web services provide remote access to distributed resources and processes through uniform interfaces. However, the latency associated with data transmission has meant that they are generally applied to non-interactive data processing. Interactive applications, in which many more user interactions and data transmissions are involved, are difficult to adapt to web service based frameworks, particularly if the interactive investigation involves large datasets. In medical imaging and visualisation, user interactions are generally a prerequisite for the detailed study and manipulation of data. As a result of major scientific initiatives, such as the Virtual Physiological Human, in which large data repositories are being set up at a variety of sites, it is becoming increasingly common for the data being investigated to be stored on a remote server. Consequently, it is now highly desirable to develop a means by which web service based interactive visualisation can be applied to distributed medical data access and clinical collaboration. This paper presents a functional-level plug-in based architecture for interactive data visualisation via web services which is being implemented within the EC-funded ContraCancrum project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/IV.2010.89
IV
Keywords
Field
DocType
interactive visualisation,web services,interactive data visualisation,interactive investigation,data processing,interactive application,web service,medical visualisation,functional-level plug ins,user interaction,data transmission,medical data access,large data repository,virtual physiological human,data repository,data access,data visualization,information retrieval,user interfaces,data manipulation,data visualisation,biomedical imaging,computer graphics,medical imaging,solid modeling,data models
Data visualization,World Wide Web,Computer science,Data Web,Interactive visualization,Web modeling,Information repository,Web service,User interface,Multimedia,Data access
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-6037
2
0.45
References 
Authors
5
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tao Wang1657.27
Youbing Zhao22410.77
Enjie Liu310018.25
Gordon Clapworthy435054.23
Xia Zhao552.84
Hui Wei612833.24
Feng Dong712420.40