Server-based Approach to Web Visualization of Integrated Three-dimensional Brain Imaging Data
- Andrew V Poliakov,
- Evan Albright,
- Kevin P Hinshaw,
- David P Corina,
- George Ojemann,
- Richard F Martin,
- James F Brinkley
- Affiliations of the authors: Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure (AVP, EA, KPH, RFM, JFB); Department of Psychology, (DPC); Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (GO)
- Correspondence and reprints: Andrew V. Poliakov, PhD, Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; e-mail: <poliakov{at}u.washington.edu>
- Received 12 August 2004
- Accepted 16 October 2004
Abstract
The authors describe a client-server approach to three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of neuroimaging data, which enables researchers to visualize, manipulate, and analyze large brain imaging datasets over the Internet. All computationally intensive tasks are done by a graphics server that loads and processes image volumes and 3-D models, renders 3-D scenes, and sends the renderings back to the client. The authors discuss the system architecture and implementation and give several examples of client applications that allow visualization and analysis of integrated language map data from single and multiple patients.
Footnotes
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This work was funded by Human Brain Project grant DC02310.
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The Skandha4 toolkit was originally designed and implemented by Jeff Prothero while he was a programmer in the Structural Informatics Group from 1985 to 1997. Since then, several developers, including the authors of this report, have contributed special purpose modules and applications based on this toolkit.
