@inproceedings{blandfordBiggestChallengesAre2011,

title = {The Biggest Challenges Are the Social Ones: Workshop Report from EICS4Med 2011},

author = { Ann Blandford and Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo and Andy Gimblett and Patrick Oladimeji and Harold Thimbleby},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Engineering Interactive Computer Systems for Medicine and Healthcare},

volume = {727},

publisher = {M. Jeusfeld c/o Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen. - Aachen},

address = {Pisa, Italy},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

abstract = {EICS4Med was held in conjunction with EICS2011 in Pisa. Many challenges to designing innovative healthcare applications where identified, including the tendency to design conservatively to avoid patient harm and the difficulties of establishing rich communications between clinicians and engineers. In considering the timescales for developments, the group concluded that technical developments are more easily achieved than the equally essential cultural changes, such that which errors are accepted and regarded as learning opportunities, and investment is directed toward the design of safer, more usable systems.},

keywords = {Healthcare, Human computer interaction},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{blandfordEngineeringInteractiveComputer2011,

title = {Engineering Interactive Computer Systems for Medicine and Healthcare (EICS4Med)},

author = { Ann Blandford and Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo and Andy Gimblett and Patrick Oladimeji and Harold Thimbleby},

doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1996461.1996556},

isbn = {978-1-4503-0670-6},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-06-01},

booktitle = {EICS '11 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems},

pages = {341--342},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Pisa, Italy},

abstract = {This workshop brings together and develops the community of researchers and practitioners concerned with the design and evaluation of interactive medical devices (infusion pumps, etc) and systems (electronic patient records, etc), to deliver a roadmap for future research in this area. The workshop involves researchers and practitioners designing and evaluating dependable systems in a variety of contexts, and those developing innovative interactive computer systems for healthcare. These pose particular challenges because of the inherent variability - of patients, system configurations, and so on. Participants will represent a range of perspectives, including safety engineering and innovative design.},

keywords = {Formal methods, Healthcare, Human computer interaction, Medical devices, Mobile computing, Modeling, Natural User Interfaces, Safety},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloGloveBasedInterface3D2010,

title = {A Glove-Based Interface for 3D Medical Image Visualization},

author = { Luigi Gallo},

editor = { Robert J. Howlett and Lakhmi C. Jain and George A. Tsihrintzis and Ernesto Damiani and Maria Virvou and Robert J. Howlett and Lakhmi C. Jain},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-14619-0_21},

isbn = {978-3-642-14619-0},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-07-01},

urldate = {2010-07-01},

booktitle = {Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services},

volume = {6},

pages = {221--230},

publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Baltimore, USA},

series = {Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies},

abstract = {In this paper, a low cost and portable 3D user interface for exploring medical data is presented. By means of a data glove, equipped with five bend sensors and an accelerometer, and a Wiimote, which tracks additional InfraRed Light Emitting Diodes placed on the glove, 3D imaging data can be visualized and manipulated in a semi-immersive virtual environment. The paper also details the interaction techniques we specifically designed for a medical imaging scenario and provides implementation details of the integration of the interface in an open-source medical image viewer.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Data glove, Healthcare, Visualization},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloSmoothedPointingUserFriendly2010,

title = {Smoothed Pointing: A User-Friendly Technique for Precision Enhanced Remote Pointing},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Mario Ciampi and Aniello Minutolo},

doi = {10.1109/CISIS.2010.76},

isbn = {978-1-4244-5917-9},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-02-01},

booktitle = {2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS)},

pages = {712--717},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Krakow, Poland},

abstract = {This paper presents Smoothed Pointing, a velocity-based precision enhancing technique for remote pointing by means of absolute devices. After discussing the most recent related work concerning the problem of accuracy in remote pointing by handheld input devices, we introduce the distinctive features of the Control-Display adaptation technique we have designed to: i) reduce the effect of both noise in input device signals and of hand tremors on the cursor stability; and ii) increase the accuracy of pointing when performed on large, high resolution displays. Moreover, we describe a 10 second calibration procedure to determine the filtering parameters, so as to free the user from a manual set up.},

keywords = {C-D ratio, Pointing, Smoothing, Wiimote},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloWiiRemoteenhancedHandComputer2009,

title = {Wii Remote-enhanced Hand-Computer Interaction for 3D Medical Image Analysis},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Mario Ciampi},

doi = {10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423137},

isbn = {978-1-4244-5755-7},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-12-01},

booktitle = {CTIT '09: Proceedings of International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology},

pages = {85--90},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Dubai, United Arab Emirates},

abstract = {In this paper, we introduce a low cost, not cumbersome, 3D user interface for exploring medical data. 3D imaging data can be manipulated in a semi-immersive virtual environment by means of an off-the-shelf wireless data glove equipped with an additional infrared LED. The LED is tracked by a Wii Remote, which is able to provide accurate positional information with no need for further six degrees of freedom position trackers. We also describe the interaction techniques we have designed specifically for a medical imaging scenario and provide some implementation details of the integration of the interface in an open-source image processing software for medical research.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Data glove, Healthcare, Visualization, Wiimote},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloPervasiveDistributedVolume2009,

title = {Pervasive Distributed Volume Rendering in a Lightweight Multi-agent Platform},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Antonio Coronato},

doi = {10.1145/1655925.1656062},

isbn = {978-1-60558-710-3},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-11-01},

booktitle = {ICIS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human},

pages = {750--755},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Seoul, Korea},

abstract = {In this paper, we present a service for a pervasive distribution of the computational load involved in the execution of high quality 3D rendering of medical volume data. The service is built upon an ad-hoc developed multi-agent middleware layer, which is in charge of executing user-defined tasks in hybrid peer-to-peer networks. Users' tasks are embedded in mobile agents and then spread in a platform composed by both fixed and mobile stations. Such agents are able to migrate among stations in order to ensure a certain degree of load balancing and dependability. The application scenario considered is a hospital, where intensive computing tasks can be edbend ectively executed on a large number of heterogeneous devices that are networked and typically only partially used. We also present the results of performance and dependability tests performed under real-world conditions.},

keywords = {Healthcare, Middleware, Multi-agent systems, Ray casting},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{espositoInfrastructurePervasiveAccess2009,

title = {An Infrastructure for Pervasive Access to Clinical Data in eHospitals},

author = { Massimo Esposito and Luigi Gallo and Antonio Coronato and Gennaro Della Vecchia},

editor = { Ernesto Damiani and Jechang Jeong and Robert J. Howlett and Lakhmi C. Jain},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-02937-0_40},

isbn = {978-3-642-02936-3},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-07-01},

booktitle = {New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2},

volume = {226/2009},

pages = {431--442},

publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Mogliano Veneto, Italy},

series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},

abstract = {Ubiquitous computing technologies are being applied in many fields of business and institutions, varying from small intelligent spaces to large virtual enterprises. In particular, such technologies can be successfully used in health care facilities in order to reduce medical costs and improve quality of service. This paper presents an infrastructure for pervasively accessing Electronic Health Records (EHR) in a hospital. It relies on services which integrate Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) and photosensor technologies for identifying, locating and tracking doctors and patients equipped with mobile devices and RFID tags, with the final aim of granting ubiquitous and transparent access to medical data stored into standard EHRs.},

keywords = {EHR, Healthcare, Localization, Pervasive computing, RFID, Tracking},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{jeonCascadeFuzzyFilters2009,

title = {Cascade Fuzzy Filters for Impulse and Random Noise Cancellation},

author = { Gwanggil Jeon and Yong Fang and Luigi Gallo and Sang-Jun Park and Rokkyu Lee and Jechang Jeong},

doi = {10.1109/ISCE.2009.5156825},

isbn = {978-1-4244-2975-2},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-05-01},

booktitle = {ISCE '09. IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics},

pages = {498--502},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Mielparque-Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan},

abstract = {This paper proposes the design of a multipass fuzzy filter for noise cancellation, and considers its application to video deinterlacing. The proposed fuzzy filter is developed to reduce noise with random and impulse characteristics, and to be used in real-time deinterlacing. We first present an impulse noise cancellation filter followed by random noise removal filter. The proposed technique can integrate conventional deinterlacing methods with the proposed denoising operation. The algorithm is tested on video sequences with impulse and random noises. The simulation results prove that the proposed method suppresses noise efficiently. In addition, we trace optimal parameter values for fuzzy membership function.},

keywords = {Fuzzy, Image denoising, Noise},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloNaturalPointingTechnique2008,

title = {A Natural Pointing Technique for Semi-Immersive Virtual Environments},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Aniello Minutolo},

doi = {10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3863},

isbn = {978-963-9799-27-1},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-07-01},

booktitle = {Mobiquitous '08 Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services},

pages = {1--4},

publisher = {ICST},

address = {Dublin, Ireland},

abstract = {Several interaction metaphors and techniques have been proposed to allow a natural interaction in virtual environments. Usually all these techniques are designed to be used with input devices such as wands, 3D mice or gloves. However, the availability of a new generation of auto-stereoscopic displays now makes it possible to exploit virtual experiences in new scenarios. In this paper we propose a variation of the ray-casting technique suitable for use with a standard mouse. With this proposed technique, users can move a 3D cursor in the virtual world without worrying about the third dimension and without losing the level of immersion provided by the 3D display.},

keywords = {Healthcare, Interaction techniques, Mouse, Pointing, Virtual Reality, Wiimote},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloNaturalInterfaceVirtual2008,

title = {Toward a Natural Interface to Virtual Medical Imaging Environments},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Antonio Coronato and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.1145/1385569.1385651},

isbn = {978-1-60558-141-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-05-01},

booktitle = {AVI '08 Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},

pages = {429--432},

publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},

address = {Napoli, Italy},

abstract = {Immersive Virtual Reality environments are suitable to support activities related to medicine and medical practice. The immersive visualization of information-rich 3D objects, coming from patient scanned data, provides clinicians with a clear perception of depth and shapes. However, to benefit from immersive visualization in medical imaging, where inspection and manipulation of volumetric data are fundamental tasks, medical experts have to be able to act in the virtual environment by exploiting their real life abilities. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to take into account user skills and needs so as to design and implement usable and accessible human-computer interaction interfaces. In this paper we present a natural interface for a semi-immersive virtual environment. Such interface is based on an off-the-shelf handheld wireless device and a speech recognition component, and provides clinicians with intuitive interaction modes for inspecting volumetric medical data.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VTK, Wireless},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{galloUserFriendlyInspectionMedical2008,

title = {User-Friendly Inspection of Medical Image Data Volumes in Virtual Environments},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.1109/CISIS.2008.33},

isbn = {0-7695-3109-1},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-03-01},

booktitle = {CISIS '08: Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems},

pages = {749--754},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA},

address = {Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain},

abstract = {In many fields of medicine interactive virtual environments can offer enhanced visualization and manipulation of three-dimensional objects, reconstructed from high-quality scans of human organs. Stereoscopic systems provide users with a natural depth perception about the spatial nature of the structures of interest; moreover advanced user-friendly interfaces, by allowing a natural and intuitive interaction, can strengthen the feeling of being immersed, so to offer clinicians the possibility to act how they do in the real life. In order to enhance the sense of realism specially in medical computer-assisted education, training and diagnostic fields, it is necessary to have a system in which every action can be executed directly into the 3D world without switching to a 2D visualization mode. In this paper we present new interaction techniques to select and extract a volume-of-interest (VOI) in a semi-immersive interactive environment, by using a user-friendly wireless interface, suitable to implement pointing and manipulation features with 6 DOF.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VOI},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{gallo3DInteractionVolumetric2008,

title = {3D Interaction with Volumetric Medical Data: Experiencing the Wiimote},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2880},

isbn = {978-963-9799-16-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-02-01},

booktitle = {2008 1st International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-Sys)},

pages = {1--6},

publisher = {ICST},

address = {Quebec City, Quebec, Canada},

abstract = {Three-dimensional virtual environments are becoming more and more important for the inspection of volumetric medical data reconstructed from slices of images coming from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Tomography (CT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) instrumentations. The possibility to visualize and interact with three-dimensional reconstructed organs while being immersed into a virtual environment, provides doctors a very naturalistic way to investigate patient's anatomy. However, most 3D user interfaces for immersive and semiimmersive virtual reality applications lack in usability or make not possible a user-friendly interaction. In this paper we present new flavors of existing 3D interaction techniques specifically designed for interacting with volumetric medical data in a semi-immersive virtual environment by using the Nintendo Wiimote controller as 3D user interface.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Healthcare, Manipulation, Pointing, Usability, Virtual Reality, Wireless},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{depietroNewApproachHandling2007,

title = {A New Approach for Handling 3D Medical Data in an Immersive Environment},

author = { Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo and Ivana Marra and Carmen Vanzanella},

doi = {10.1109/VECIMS.2007.4373929},

isbn = {978-1-4244-0820-7},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-06-01},

booktitle = {VECIMS 2007. IEEE Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2007},

pages = {63--66},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Ostuni, Italy},

abstract = {Medical Imaging applications use images coming from different sources such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), to generate 3D data. Starting from these volumetric data, applications reconstruct 3D models of anatomical structures which could be manipulated and analyzed. In this paper we present a new approach for the visualization and interaction with volumetric datasets in a fully immersive environment. It allows to handle the reconstructed models directly within the virtual scene; in particular a technique is described for outlining the Volume Of Interest (VOI) functionality in a three-dimensional dataset for a visual interactive inspection and manipulation of the organ of interest.},

keywords = {Healthcare, Medical Imaging, VOI, Volume Rendering, VTK},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{coronatoAutomaticExecutionTasks2007,

title = {Automatic Execution of Tasks in MiPeG},

author = { Antonio Coronato and Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-72360-8},

isbn = {978-3-540-72359-2},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-05-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing},

volume = {4459},

pages = {702--709},

publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Paris, France},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},

abstract = {Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. The conjunction of such paradigms are now generating a new one, the Pervasive Grid Computing, which aims at extending classic grids with characteristics of pervasive computing like spontaneous and transparent integration of mobile devices, context-awareness, proactivity, and so on. In this paper, we present mechanisms and a software infrastructure for executing tasks in a pervasive grid. In particular, the proposed solution, which provides an implementation of the Utility Computing model, enables users to submit tasks and to pick up results without concerning on requiring and handling hardware resources.},

keywords = {Grid computing, Multi-agent systems, Pervasive computing, Utility computing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{coronatoDynamicDistributionExecution2007,

title = {Dynamic Distribution and Execution of Tasks in Pervasive Grids},

author = { Antonio Coronato and Giuseppe De Pietro and Luigi Gallo},

doi = {10.1109/PDP.2007.39},

isbn = {0-7695-2784-1},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-02-01},

booktitle = {15th EUROMICRO International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing},

pages = {419--423},

publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},

address = {Naples, Italy},

abstract = {Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. The conjunction of such paradigms are now generating a new one, the pervasive grid computing, which aims at extending classic grids with characteristics of pervasive computing like spontaneous and transparent integration of mobile devices, context-awareness, pro-activity, and so on. In this paper, we present a software infrastructure for integrating mobile devices as active resources in a grid. In particular, it has been developed a service able to dynamically distribute and execute user's tasks on a grid of mobile and fixed devices. Mobile devices participate to the grid in a way completely transparent to their owners, hence the computational power is given without any configuration operation and in a reliable way. As well, users willing of executing their applications directly submit their code without caring of choosing and allocating resources of the grid.},

keywords = {Grid computing, Mobile computing, Software architecture},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}