title: Dissecting in silico: towards a taxonomy for medical simulators.
abstract: In this paper, we investigated several approaches in literature that classify different aspects of medical simulators. We have merged these definitions to form a structured taxonomy. This new taxonomy should facilitate the design of new medical simulators and allow to analyze and classify existing simulators, algorithms, toolkits and hardware.
authors.affiliation: RWTH Aachen University, Germany. s.ullrich@ieee.org
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ullrich
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Knott
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuhlen
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000145:classification* / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface