Web visualization of 3D medical data with open source software (original) (raw)

Every day more applications migrate from off-line systems to web applications available worldwide. Many of these applications require displaying 3D data and allowing user interaction with them. Websockets provides the basis to develop these applications over the web, to run on any platform. This paper proposes four software architectures for developing web applications for 3D data visualization based on current open source websockets technology. One of these architectures is implemented and described in detail. Test and results for 3D meshes and volumes are presented and discussed. The system can be used to display medical datasets and medical models on real-time over the web, potentially contributing to the Telemedicine area