Gestix: A doctor-computer sterile gesture interface for dynamic environments

Advances in Soft Computing

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 30-39

  Wachs, Juan ^a   Stern, Helman ^a   Edan, Yael ^a   Gillam, Michael ^b   Feied, Craig ^b   Smith, Mark ^b   Handler, Jon ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Hand gesture recognition; Image visualization; Medical databases; Sterile interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149236989     PISSN: 16153871     EISSN: 18600794     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70706-6_3     Document Type: Article

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