PMID- 19910667
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100323
LR  - 20091113
IS  - 1077-2626 (Print)
IS  - 1077-2626 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 1
DP  - 2010 Jan-Feb
TI  - The medical exploration toolkit: an efficient support for visual computing in 
      surgical planning and training.
PG  - 133-46
LID - 10.1109/TVCG.2009.58 [doi]
AB  - Application development is often guided by the usage of software libraries and 
      toolkits. For medical applications, the toolkits currently available focus on 
      image analysis and volume rendering. Advance interactive visualizations and user 
      interface issues are not adequately supported. Hence, we present a toolkit for 
      application development in the field of medical intervention planning, training, 
      and presentation--the MEDICALEXPLORATIONTOOLKIT (METK). The METK is based on the 
      rapid prototyping platform MeVisLab and offers a large variety of facilities for 
      an easy and efficient application development process. We present dedicated 
      techniques for advanced medical visualizations, exploration, standardized 
      documentation, adn interface widgets for common tasks. These include, e.g., 
      advanced animation facilities, viewpoint selection, several illustrative 
      rendering techniques, and new techniques for object selection in 3D surface 
      models. No extended programming skills are needed for application building, since 
      a graphical programming approach can be used. the toolkit is freely available and 
      well documented to facilitate the use and extension of the toolkit.
FAU - Muhler, Konrad
AU  - Muhler K
AD  - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. muehler@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
FAU - Tietjen, Christian
AU  - Tietjen C
FAU - Ritter, Felix
AU  - Ritter F
FAU - Preim, Bernhard
AU  - Preim B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
JT  - IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
JID - 9891704
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Computer Graphics
MH  - Computer Simulation
MH  - Computer-Assisted Instruction/*methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - Imaging, Three-Dimensional/*methods
MH  - *Models, Biological
MH  - *Software
MH  - Surgery, Computer-Assisted/*education/*methods
MH  - *User-Computer Interface
EDAT- 2009/11/17 06:00
MHDA- 2010/03/24 06:00
CRDT- 2009/11/14 06:00
PHST- 2009/11/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/11/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/03/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1109/TVCG.2009.58 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2010 Jan-Feb;16(1):133-46. doi: 
      10.1109/TVCG.2009.58.