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Full titleMedicalize
Summary
The purpose of MEDICALIZE is to develop a set of software tools that enable medical students manipulate a 3D model of a pathological organ in a real time environment using a standard PC. The software is based on OpenGL libraries. It can gain an enormous benefit by using the VISUALIZE graphic boards by Hewlett Packard supported on the Windows NT operating system. The speed of rendering and manipulation will be greatly improved with such a board. At this moment the availability of 3D modelling of medical images is limited to high cost workstations. Educational tools will be developed to assist browsing through 3D models, with the capability of setting up case studies on specific pathologies.
Time frameApril 98 - May 99
Funded byHewlett Packard
Results
The software has been tested on standard PC's with and without OpenGL hardware accelerators. The performance is significantly different. On a HP Pentium II 400 MHz without accelerator, the interaction is not real time: there a one second delay in good quality/resolution and more than two in high quality.
On a HP Pentium II 300 MHz with HP-VISUALIZE fx4 graphics adapter with 18 MB SGRAM the time response is immediate at all qualities. This means that rotation and any other manipulation of the 3D model is smooth and fast while moving the mouse, giving a full virtual reality experience.
A test can be performed using the demo available at http://research.unicampus.it/medicalize/demo

DEMO of MEDICALIZE have been performed at:
  • Conferenza e mostra internazionale "La società dell’informazione e le applicazioni telematiche: un’opportunità anche per i Paesi del Mediterraneo", Le Ciminiere, Catania - 16/19 aprile 1999
  • TELECOM 99 - Geneva - 10-17 October 1999
Project leader for Campus Bio-MedicoMichele Crudele
Main partnersThis project is run over IAEVA results. Software has been produced by Neuroware (GR) and De Montfort University (UK)
Campus Bio-Medico role Project leader
Campus Bio-Medico roleMain developer
NotesInitial proposal and goals