Voice controller for Image Guided Surgery and personalized Interactive Visualization

With the increasing availability of multimodal data, an important cur- rent topic is to provide surgeons with tools for the visual exploration of the pa- tient data according to their own preferences and experience. In the operating theatre very rigid visualisation modalities are normally available and each of them is usually dedicated to one specific aspect of the operation workflow. A need of more personalised and adaptable solution is clearly identified in many types of surgery. This paper presents a system for a personalized visualization for each single intervention step. It permits to plan the visualization preferences and configure different monitors assigning several input sources. During the operation, natural user interfaces permit navigating among all the pre-set con- figurations. The natural interaction is achieved by means of a combination of speech and multi-touch user interface (UI).