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Eyewear-free 3-D visualization for biomedical applications.
The remarkable achievements of life sciences over the last decade in monitoring, detection, and treatment of various diseases have lead to even
higher expectations by the society in the future. Although new sensing modalities are continuously being developed, followed by an ever increasing stream of biomedical data, the analysis capabilities by humans have
not changed. Effective tools for analyzing, representing and visualizing the captured data are of essence for the future of patient diagnosis and treatment.
3-D Automultiscopic displays in the treatment of motor functions and balance
Team: S. Ince, J. Konrad
Collaboration: L. Oddsson (Neuromuscular Research Center at Boston University)
Collaboration: S. Williams (Boston University Medical Center)
Funding: National Institutes of Health
This is a joint effort between the Neuromuscular Research Center, Boston University Medical Center and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to
develop new tools to study the development, structure and function of the human brain. One particular area of interest here is the treatment of motor functions and balance such as during rehabilitation after stroke,
spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy, or during prolonged depravation of gravity such as observed by astronauts in space. Our role in this project is to develop eyewear-free 3-D visualization system based on
lenticular technology (currently Synthagram SG222 and SG202 by Stereographics Corp. are being used) and off-the-shelf digital point-and-shoot cameras. The idea is to capture 2-3 views of a scene of interest to the
patient (his/her own house, garden etc,) and then reconstruct additional 6-7 views digitally on a computer for the total of 9 views that can be comfortably viewed on the 3-D screen and help regain balance control.
To this effect advanced intermediate view reconstruction methods are being developed. For details of view reconctruction click here.
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