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    A Mixed Reality Anatomy Teaching Tool
    (The Eurographics Association, 2006) Thomas, Rhys G.; John, Nigel W.; Lim, Ik Soo; Louise M. Lever and Mary McDerby
    In this paper we present an inexpensive Mixed Reality software tool for training medical students in anatomy. The software integrates the ARToolkit and Visualization Toolkit (VTK) to create a novel interactive environment in which the user can manipulate the position and orientation of the volume rendering using a plastic model of the organ to be observed. The volume rendering can then be clipped relative to an arbitrary plane to reveal data from its interior, using a second prop.
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    Anatomy Education using Rapid Prototyping
    (The Eurographics Association, 2007) Thomas, Rhys G.; John, Nigel W.; Lim, Ik Soo; Ik Soo Lim and David Duce
    Rapid Prototyping is a technique which is rapidly gaining interest amongst the medical community for many different purposes. In this paper we present a novel tool that uses rapidly prototyped models to serve as an interaction device for the teaching of anatomy. The user interacts with volume data of real human organs in an Augmented Reality environment delivered via a Head-Mounted Display. We include a description of how all of the key parts of the system operate and describe their integration. Our hypothesis is that this approach provides an effective and compelling alternative to cadaver based anatomy education.
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    A Case-Study of Inconsistent Surface Reconstruction in Recent Literature Resulting from Octree Rotation-Variance
    (The Eurographics Association, 2007) Hughes, David Meirion; Lim, Ik Soo; Ik Soo Lim and David Duce
    We review the use of octree and PCA (Principle Component Analysis) in current literature and explore a leading piece of research, as a case study, to highlight how overlooking octree rotation-variance has resulted in inconsistent results. We provide a simple method using PCA to re-orientate an octree to the intrinsic-orientation defined by data variance. In our case-study we explore and provide a method for consistency within multi-scale CSRBFs (Compactly Supported Radial Basis Functions). By utilizing PCA we provide rotation-invariant multi-scale surface reconstructions. We show, by curvature analysis, that the original surface reconstruction method is variant to data orientation and that our approach results in rotation-invariant reconstructions. In addition we also provide a technique for more flexibility when choosing a CSRBF for use with multi-scale surface reconstruction.