First Deployment of Diminished Reality for Anatomy Education

Ienaga N, Bork F, Meerits S, Mori S, Fallavollita P, Navab N, Saito H (2017)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2017

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Pages Range: 294-296

Conference Proceedings Title: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2016

Event location: Merida, Yucatan, MEX

ISBN: 9781509037407

DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2016.0099

Abstract

Understanding the anatomy of the human body is vital for everyone working in the medical domain. Augmented reality (AR) systems for anatomy teaching, which display virtual information directly on top of a users' body, have proven to facilitate mental mapping compared to traditional teaching paradigms. In this paper, we explore the potential of diminished reality (DR) in the context of anatomy education. As a first necessary step to achieving a DR anatomy education system, parts of the human body have to be extracted and diminished from the video stream. Our system diminishes either the arm or head of the user by projecting a background image recovered using RGB-D cameras. Such a system, if combined with an accurate overlay of virtual counterparts, could potentially improve the learning effect by attracting the users' attention to the virtual information and improve visual perception by avoiding the well-known floating effect of AR.

Involved external institutions

Keio University JP Japan (JP) Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE) University of Ottawa CA Canada (CA)

How to cite

APA:

Ienaga, N., Bork, F., Meerits, S., Mori, S., Fallavollita, P., Navab, N., & Saito, H. (2017). First Deployment of Diminished Reality for Anatomy Education. In Eduardo Veas, Raphael Grasset, Tobias Langlotz, Alejandro Martin, Jose Martinez-Carranza, Maki Sugimoto (Eds.), Adjunct Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2016 (pp. 294-296). Merida, Yucatan, MEX: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Ienaga, Naoto, et al. "First Deployment of Diminished Reality for Anatomy Education." Proceedings of the 15th Adjunct IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2016, Merida, Yucatan, MEX Ed. Eduardo Veas, Raphael Grasset, Tobias Langlotz, Alejandro Martin, Jose Martinez-Carranza, Maki Sugimoto, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. 294-296.

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