A Web-based Medical Image Viewer for 2D and 3D visualization

With the development of Internet technology, telemedicine technology has become one of the hottest research topics. In this paper, a Web-based medical image viewer application is presented in order to facilitate timely and accurate diagnoses in a telemedicine system. The application can access the remote medical image database and display image over the network. This application implements the basic functions of the two-dimensional image processing. Besides, 3D functions, e.g, volume rendering and surface rendering of region of interest, fly through, can be also implemented by the proposed viewer. Medical staff can perform some basic operations via the mouse to make more effective diagnosis. Experimental results show that the basic image processing functions and advanced 3D functions can be achieved by this application and it presents a high level of usability, functionality and performance.