Publications
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2011
Gallo, Luigi; Placitelli, Alessio Pierluigi; Ciampi, Mario
Controller-Free Exploration of Medical Image Data: Experiencing the Kinect Proceedings Article
In: 2011 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), pp. 1–6, IEEE, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1189-3.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Healthcare, Kinect, Medical Imaging, Touchless interaction
@inproceedings{galloControllerfreeExplorationMedical2011,
title = {Controller-Free Exploration of Medical Image Data: Experiencing the Kinect},
author = { Luigi Gallo and Alessio Pierluigi Placitelli and Mario Ciampi},
doi = {10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999138},
isbn = {978-1-4577-1189-3},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-06-01},
booktitle = {2011 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)},
pages = {1--6},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {Bristol, United Kingdom},
abstract = {In this paper, an open-source system for a controller-free, highly interactive exploration of medical images is presented. By using a Microsoft Xbox KinectTM as the only input device, the system's user interface allows users to interact at a distance through hand and arm gestures. The paper also details the interaction techniques we have designed specifically for the deviceless exploration of medical imaging data. Since the user interface is touch-free and does not require complex calibration steps, it is suitable for use in operating rooms, where non-sterilizable devices cannot be used.},
keywords = {Healthcare, Kinect, Medical Imaging, Touchless interaction},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Pietro, Giuseppe De; Ciampi, Mario; Gallo, Luigi; Minutolo, Aniello
MITO: Medical Imaging Toolkit Miscellaneous
2011.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Touchless interaction, User interface
@misc{depietroMITOMedicalImaging2011,
title = {MITO: Medical Imaging Toolkit},
author = { Giuseppe De Pietro and Mario Ciampi and Luigi Gallo and Aniello Minutolo},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
abstract = {"MITO - Medical Imaging TOolkit" is an open-source (GNU General Public License version 2.0 - GPLv2), Windows-based software architecture for advanced Medical Imaging. Main characteristics are: DICOM compliant, 2D/3D/S3D visualization, image segmentation and fusion, ROI, advanced 3D user interface. Its latest version, the OR edition, provides a 2D/3D interface for manipulating medical images within sterile environments (e.g., operating rooms), in a touchless way. MITO has been downloaded, so far (February 2016) 35,027 times from 160 countries all around the World.},
keywords = {Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Touchless interaction, User interface},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {misc}
}
2010
Gallo, Luigi; Minutolo, Aniello; Pietro, Giuseppe De
A User Interface for VR-ready 3D Medical Imaging by off-the-Shelf Input Devices Journal Article
In: Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 350–358, 2010, ISSN: 0010-4825.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Healthcare, Interaction techniques, Medical Imaging, Mouse, Natural User Interfaces, Pointing, Rotation, User study, Virtual Reality, Wiimote
@article{galloUserInterfaceVRready2010,
title = {A User Interface for VR-ready 3D Medical Imaging by off-the-Shelf Input Devices},
author = { Luigi Gallo and Aniello Minutolo and Giuseppe De Pietro},
doi = {10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.01.006},
issn = {0010-4825},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-01-01},
journal = {Computers in Biology and Medicine},
volume = {40},
number = {3},
pages = {350--358},
abstract = {The distinctiveness of clinical environments demands specific solutions in the design of both usable and practical user interfaces for 3D medical imaging. In this work, a novel user interface to provide a direct interaction in 3D space by off-the-shelf input devices is proposed. The interface, which has been implemented and integrated into an open-source medical image viewer, features a depth-enhanced mouse pointer and a novel rotation technique that uses the object's geometry as the rotation handle. The usability of the proposed approach is evaluated to show its effectiveness for use in professional 3D imaging applications.},
keywords = {Healthcare, Interaction techniques, Medical Imaging, Mouse, Natural User Interfaces, Pointing, Rotation, User study, Virtual Reality, Wiimote},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2008
Gallo, Luigi; Pietro, Giuseppe De; Coronato, Antonio; Marra, Ivana
Toward a Natural Interface to Virtual Medical Imaging Environments Proceedings Article
In: AVI '08 Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 429–432, ACM New York, NY, USA, Napoli, Italy, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60558-141-5.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 3D interaction, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VTK, Wireless
@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}
}
Gallo, Luigi; Pietro, Giuseppe De; Marra, Ivana
User-Friendly Inspection of Medical Image Data Volumes in Virtual Environments Proceedings Article
In: CISIS '08: Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, pp. 749–754, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, 2008, ISBN: 0-7695-3109-1.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 3D interaction, Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VOI
@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}
}
2007
Pietro, Giuseppe De; Gallo, Luigi; Marra, Ivana; Vanzanella, Carmen
A New Approach for Handling 3D Medical Data in an Immersive Environment Proceedings Article
In: VECIMS 2007. IEEE Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2007, pp. 63–66, IEEE Computer Society, Ostuni, Italy, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4244-0820-7.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Healthcare, Medical Imaging, VOI, Volume Rendering, VTK
@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}
}
Other
Talks
Keynote Talks
- 2023, October 10 – Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Advances and Applications in Research Oncology and Clinical Oncology, Next Oncology 2023, Next Oncology – Supporting Oncology through innovation, Milano, Italy. Website
- 2022, March 1 – Touchless interactions in Surgery, ICCI 2022, International Conference on Cybernetics and Innovations, Ratchaburi, Thailand. Website
- 2019, June 25 – Interactive Virtual Environments: From the Laboratory to the Field, SalentoAVR 2019, 6th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Lecce, Italy. Website
- 2016, October 2 – Vision-based human-computer interaction in the operating theatre, PRIP 2016, 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Republic of Belarus. Website
- 2015, September 1 – Touchless Interaction in Surgery: the Medical Imaging Toolkit experience, SalentoAVR 2015, 2nd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Lecce, Italy. Website
Invited Talks
- 2023, November 14 – Realtà Aumentata e Virtuale, La Scienza che non c’era: L’informatica e i prossimi 100 anni del CNR, Area di Ricerca CNR Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Website
- 2023, September 30 – Lessons Learnt from the SMART BEAR Project, STRESS Congress, Palatul Parlamentului, Bucarest, Romania. Host: Prof. Luiza Spiru.
- 2023, May 2 – Enhancing and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage: an HCI perspective, PhD Course in “Umanesimo e Tecnologie”, Università di Macerata, Italy. Host: Prof. Roberto Lambertini.
- 2022, December 19 – Sperimentare la realtà estesa e l’interazione uomo-macchina nella riabilitazione personalizzata, Personalized Rehabilitation: Combining Mind, Body and Genetics 2022, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italia.
- 2022, October 25 – Home Care and Assisted Living for the Elderly: The SMART BEAR Approach, Digital Transformation Summit 2022, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Website
- 2022, September 9 – Enhancing and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage: an HCI perspective, eXtended Reality and Artificial Intelligence, International Summer School 2022 on “XR and AI for enhancing cultural and territorial heritage”, Matera, Italy. Host: Prof. Ugo Erra. Website
- 2018, December 14 – The potential of virtual reality in various health care settings: promises and challenges, Artificial Intelligence and Health, Rome, Italy. Host: Prof. Clara Balsano. Website
- 2018, November 15 – Piattaforma DatabencArt – progetto per le scuole della Campania, XXII Edizione della Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico, Paestum (SA), Italy. Host: Luisa Franzese. Website
- 2018, September 29 – La realtà virtuale per il training cognitivo, Convention Realtà virtuale in soggetti con impairment cognitivo, Gallarate (VA), Italia. Host: Dr. Marco Predazzi. Website
- 2017, February 15 – Interactive ICT technologies for Cultural Heritage, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Napoli, Italy. Host: Dr. Paolo Giulierini. Website
- 2014, June 6 – Interfacce gestuali touchless per la visualizzazione di immagini mediche, Chirurgie 2014 – Simulazione nella Formazione, Programmazione e Ricerca in Chirurgia, Napoli, Italy. Host: Prof. Marco De Fazio. Website
- 2013, November 11 – Multi-DOF touchless interaction with 3D medical data, Body Tracking in Healthcare 2013, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Organisers: Abigail Sellen, Kenton O’Hara, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche. Website
- 2008, March – Realistic vs. magic interaction metaphors in virtual environments, Multimedia Techniques for Device and Ambient Intelligence – MTDAI 2008, Mogliano Veneto, Italy. Host: Prof. E. Damiani.
Awards
Best Research Paper Award @ AIxPAC
Best Research Paper Award @ ICT4AWE
Second Place Award - Gesture Demonstration Competition @ ICPR
L. Gallo, A.P. Placitelli, G. De Pietro, “A Kinect NUI for 3D Medical Visualization”, demonstrated at the CHALEARN Gesture Demonstration Competition, in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 10-11, 2012. Organizers: Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athitsos. Judges: Alex Balan, Hugo Jair Escalante, Paul Doliotis, Jeffrey Margolis. ChaLearn Gesture Demonstration Competition website
Best Research Paper Award @ IIMSS
L. Gallo, “A Glove-Based Interface for 3D Medical Image Visualization”, presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent and Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, Baltimore, USA, 28-30 July 2010.
Master Degree & PhD Theses
L. Gallo, “Semi-immersive interactive virtual environments for 3D medical imaging,” University of Naples “Parthenope”, Philosophiæ Doctor degree in Information Engineering, 2010. Tutor: Prof. Luigi Romano. Ph.D. Thesis
L. Gallo, “Distribuzione ed esecuzione automatica di task in griglie pervasive,” University of Naples “Federico II”, Master of Science in Computer Engineering, 2006. Supervisors: Antonio Coronato, Giuseppe De Pietro. M.D. Thesis