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The purpose of this study is to construct a system for surgical assistance by touchless interactions. In the clinical site, surgeons usually need to use some contacting devices to display or visualize medical images and check the anatomic information of the patient. However, after operating the visualization device, re-sterilization is necessary in order to maintain hygiene. Though some touchless surgery support systems using Kinect have been developed, their functions are not enough for surgical support. In this paper, we develop a new system, which can visualize 3D medical image by simple touchless single-handed interactions.
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This work is supported in part by the Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry for Education, Science, Culture and Sports (MEXT) under the Grant no. 15K16031, no. 15H01130, no. 25280044 and no. 26289069 in part by the MEXT Support Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities (2013–2017), and in part by the R-GIRO Research Fund from Ritsumeikan University.
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Fujii, R., Tateyama, T., Kitrungrotsakul, T., Tanaka, S., Chen, YW. (2016). A Touchless Visualization System for Medical Volumes Based on Kinect Gesture Recognition. In: Chen, YW., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2016. InMed 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39687-3_20
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