Computational Requirements of the Virtual Patient

Nigel W. John; Chris J. Hughes; Serban R. Pop; Franck P. Vidal; O. Buckley

Computational Requirements of the Virtual Patient

Nigel W. John, Chris J. Hughes, Serban R. Pop, Franck P. Vidal, O. Buckley

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Abstract

Medical visualization in a hospital can be used to aid training, diagnosis, and pre- and intra-operative planning. In such an application, a virtual representation of a patient is needed that is interactive, can be viewed in three dimensions (3D), and simulates physiological processes that change over time. This paper highlights some of the computational challenges of implementing a real time simulation of a virtual patient, when accuracy can be traded-off against speed. Illustrations are provided using projects from our research based on Grid-based visualization, through to use of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CMBE09
Publication status	Published - 2009

Publication series

Name	CMBE online proceedings series
ISSN (Print)	2227-3085
ISSN (Electronic)	2227-9385

Keywords

Medical visualization
virtual environment
Grid
GPU

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