title: The multimod application framework: a rapid application development tool for computer aided medicine.
abstract: This paper describes a new application framework (OpenMAF) for rapid development of multimodal applications in computer-aided medicine. MAF applications are multimodal in data, in representation, and in interaction. The framework supports almost any type of biomedical data, including DICOM datasets, motion-capture recordings, or data from computer simulations (e.g. finite element modeling). The interactive visualization approach (multimodal display) helps the user interpret complex datasets, providing multiple representations of the same data. In addition, the framework allows multimodal interaction by supporting the simultaneous use of different input-output devices like 3D trackers, stereoscopic displays, haptics hardware and speech recognition/synthesis systems. The Framework has been designed to run smoothly even on limited power computers, but it can take advantage of all hardware capabilities. The Framework is based on a collection of portable libraries and it can be compiled on any platform that supports OpenGL, including Windows, MacOS X and any flavor of Unix/linux.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Via di Barbiano, 1/10, 40136 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viceconti
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zannoni
authors.forename: Debora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Testi
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petrone
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perticoni
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Quadrani
authors.forename: Fulvia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Taddei
authors.forename: Silvano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Imboden
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Clapworthy
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed