Real-time hand gesture interface for browsing medical images

IC-MED International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-25

  Wachs, Juan ^a   Stern, Helman ^a   Edan, Yael ^a   Gillam, Michael ^b   Feied, Craig ^b   Smithd, 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; Medical databases; Sterile interface, image visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992683067     PISSN: 1931308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1931308X.2008.10644149     Document Type: Article

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