Interactive tablets for 3D medical image exploration

Abstract

Physicians take advantage of desktop and mobile software to perform their work, although current visualization systems still rely on interaction approaches that do not go beyond 2D interfaces. The advent of portable devices, such as tablets, coupled with the growing need to explore and apply 3D image manipulation techniques, motivated our team to develop a tool for 3D medical image exploration and visualization using tangible and spatially aware mobile touch interfaces running on mobile devices. Our approach was validated with user tests using a medical image visualization prototype. Our results show that for 3D manipulation, mobile devices can improve the experience in comparison with traditional techniques. Testing the proposed system with healthcare professionals will be performed as future work.