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3D Medical Informatics

Information Science in Multiple Dimensions

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Medical Informatics

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems ((ISIS,volume 8))

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This chapter describes the emerging discipline of 3D Medical Informatics. While text-based informatics has a distinguished history and accepted fundamental linguistic principles, the use of 2D and 3D data in informatics has emerged relatively recently as computing capabilities have rapidly advanced, imaging and modeling standards have been established, and as high performance networking has made possible the sharing of the large and complex data that images, volumes, and models represent. This chapter outlines the early developments of this discipline, presents some examples of how image data is managed and presented, and suggests some of the leading research challenges in this young field.

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  1. Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 20894

    Terry S. Yoo

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  1. The University of Arizona, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  2. University of Washington, USA

    Sherrilynne S. Fuller

  3. Columbia University, USA

    Carol Friedman

  4. Oregon Health & Science Univ., USA

    William Hersh

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Yoo, T.S. (2005). 3D Medical Informatics. In: Chen, H., Fuller, S.S., Friedman, C., Hersh, W. (eds) Medical Informatics. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25739-X_12

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