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Due to ethical issues with the use of human and animal corpses in medical education, difficulty interacting with organs using sensory channels as sight and touch, and the possibility to have a tool compatible with low-cost equipment such as laptops and Novint Falcon haptic system, an interactive tool of the abdominal organs is being developed taking advantage of virtual reality tools that are increasingly available in the academic environment. The process of building this interactive system consists of the following steps: Source data are taken from images acquired by abdominal computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Each selected abdominal organ (liver, kidney and spleen) is segmented by a semi-automatic process, from which a polygonal mesh is obtained to represent the 3D shape of the organ. Then the visual and mechanical properties of tissues, extracted from the recent literature, are associated to the polygonal representation with H3DAPI.
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Vega-Medina, L., Tibamoso, G., Perez-Gutierrez, B. (2013). VR Tool for Interaction with the Abdomen Anatomy. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_49
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