Virtual reality-based training for the diagnosis of prostate cancer

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1253-1260

  Burdea, Grigore ^a   Patounakis, George ^a   Popescu, Viorel ^a   Weiss, Robert E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital rectal examination (DRE); Haptic feedback; Human factors; Modeling; Prostate cancer; Training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SIMULATORS; STUDENTS; UROLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HAPTIC FEEDBACK; PROSTATE CANCER; VIRTUAL REALITY BASED TRAINING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEW JERSEY; PALPATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0032821303     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.790503     Document Type: Article

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