Navigate MRI with 3D mouse

It displays MRI in 2D and 3D multi-slice views, with easy search and navigation with a 3D mouse.

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3D

Table of content

• Motivation
• Content
• Development
• License
• Links
• Author

Motivation

A university project made for the course Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at Masaryk University (Czech Republic).

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body.

Content

• files: an example of the NII file type, which is primarily associated with NIfTI-1 Data Format.
• visualization_2D: source code to visualize the MRI image in 2 dimensions and interact with a 3D mouse.
• volume: source code to visualize the MRI image in 3 dimensions and interact with a 3D mouse.

Development

• Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIFTI): format for multi-dimensional neuroimaging data, to represent the MRI.

• AMI Medical Imaging (AMI) Javascript Toolkit(ami): to show the NIFTI type files in 2D and 3D on the browser.

• Space Navigator Controls for WebGL: to connect "Space Navigator" 3D mouse by 3Dconnexion to JavaScript via gamepad browser API.

• three.js: the others libraries are based on three.js, so it is essential to know how it works.

License

MIT License

Links

• Scalable Brain Atlas (Web which displays brain regions and reference images in 2d and 3d multi-slice views.)

Author

Danci, Marian Dumitru (@dumitrux)