3D Medical Informatics
Terry S. Yoo · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Chapter OverviewThis chapter describes the emerging discipline of 3D Medical Informatics. While text-based informatics has a distinguished history and accepted fundamental linguistic principles, the use of 2D and 3D data in informatics has emerged relatively recently as computing capabilities have rapidly advanced, imaging and modeling standards have been established, and as high performance networking has made possible the sharing of the large and complex data that images, volumes, and models represent. This chapter outlines the early developments of this discipline, presents some examples of how image data is managed and presented, and suggests some of the leading research challenges in this young field.