title: MedX3D: standards enabled desktop medical 3D.
abstract: This paper reports on the work of the Web3D Consortium's Medical Working Group to specify and implement MedX3D -- an extension to the X3D standard that will support advanced medical visualization functionality and medical data exchange. This initiative covers volume rendering, ontology support, and data import/export, for standalone applications and web-based plug-ins. It is our hypothesis that such a 3D medical standard will provide better access to data, and enable improvements in medical care.
authors.affiliation: The Web3D Consortium, USA.
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aratow
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Couch
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Evestedt
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Polys
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Puk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ray
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000592:standards*; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008838:Microcomputers; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface