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Tensors in Image Processing and Computer Vision, p. 429-454

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-299-3_20

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User Interfaces to Interact with Tensor Fields

Journal article published in 2009 by Susana Merino-Caviedes, Marcos Martin-Fernandez ORCID
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Abstract

Nowadays there is a growing interest in tensor medical imaging modalities. In Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DT-MRI), each pixel is valued with a symmetric second-order tensor describing the spatial properties of diffusion at that point. Therefore, it provides significantly more information than scalar modalities, but this causes the complexity of the interfaces dealing with them to grow. In this chapter, the current situation of user interfaces for tensor fields is reviewed. Tensor user interfaces are difficult to design, given the difficulty of mentally integrating data with so many parameters. This is why a considerable effort must be invested in order to achieve intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces. The display of tensor information plays an important role in this, and we review several existing visualization methods for tensor fields. We must point out that, although most of the applications are graphical interfaces, there are also examples of command-line tools and multimodal interfaces employing virtual environments. We study some of the current medical user interfaces for diffusion tensor fields.