Advanced visualization - the Illustrasound project
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Illustrasound project (Birkeland, Soltezova, Helljesen, Viola, Nylund, Gilja)
The focus of the project is on the visualization of medical ultrasound data. Ultrasound is a very important clinical imaging tool that is extensively used by medical doctors all around the world. For non-experts and also sometimes for experts, the ultrasound images are hard to understand, leading to special challenges in the communication between medical doctors and their patients. The vision of the IllustraSound project is to provide new visualization technology to address the readability problem by enriching the ultrasound data with other types of medical data. On top of the ultrasound images, intuitive illustrative renderings are added, so that the patient (or doctor) can get a better understanding of the images.