A preliminary study on multi-touch based medical image analysis and visualization system

Medical imaging plays a central role in many healthcare practices. With the development of medical imaging devices, the medical image data can be achieved in higher and higher definitions, and then how to analyze and visualize the acquired large-amount and complex data is a desiring demand in medical education and clinical fields. Therefore, this paper develops a multi-touch based medical image analysis and visualization system for analyzing medical images, displaying the whole body's organs of a subject and the interested organ and region to explore more detailed structures. The designed system includes three modules: (1) Image analysis module, which can smooth the medical image, and detect the edges in medical image automatically; (2) Visualization module, which can manifest not only the detailed information and global structures of an organ in different view-points but also the correlated location relations between different organs; (3) Control module, which can enable the user to easily interact with the system by multi-touch based control. The designed system is able to achieve a detail visualization of the integrated components, and can be applied to education, doctor-training and clinical sites.