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International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking

HPCN-Europe 1999: High-Performance Computing and Networking pp 964–972Cite as

Multi modal presentation in virtual telemedical environments

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Telemedicine can be used to create virtual environments for the collaboration of patient, physicians, and medical staff. Multi modal presentation is increasingly used to improve human-computer interface. In this paper we present a multimodal interactive environment for EEG/MEG data presentation based on Internet technologies and a virtual reality user interface (VRUI). In addition to visualization, VRUI takes advantage of other input/output modalities such as audio. Animation on the 3D models is used to give insight into spatio-temporal patterns of activity. In addition, sonification is applied to emphasize the temporal dimension of the selected visualized scores. Our proposed approach requires only a standard Web browser to run the multi modal viewer which presents 3D EEG topographic maps using a VRML head model which is animated with Java applets.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. The University of Alabama in Huntsville, EB 213, 35899, Huntsville

    Emil Jovanov

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, POB 816, 11001, Belgrade

    Aleksandar Samardzic

  3. Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade

    Dusan Starcevic

  4. National Technical University of Athens, Athens

    Andy Marsh

  5. Military Academy, Belgrade

    Zeljko Obrenovic

  6. Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade

    Vlada Radivojevic

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  1. Emil Jovanov
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Peter Sloot Marian Bubak Alfons Hoekstra Bob Hertzberger

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Jovanov, E., Starcevic, D., Marsh, A., Obrenovic, Z., Radivojevic, V., Samardzic, A. (1999). Multi modal presentation in virtual telemedical environments. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100657

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