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This paper presents the on-going work concerning the definition of a standardised use of Virtual Reality in a telemedical information society. It presents the collaboration of the EUROMED project and the usage of the VRASP over the WWW to perform Virtual Assisted Surgery. The aim of the EUROMED project is to standardise the use of the WWW for advanced medical image diagnosis in a telemedical information society. Its interconnection with the state-of-the-art virtual assisted surgery package VRASP, developed at the BIR laboratory Mayo Clinic will allow for a standardised approach to be defined on the adoption of HPC to support Virtual Reality in a telemedically aware information society.
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Simistira, F., Marsh, A., Robb, R.A. (1997). Coupling HPCN and Virtual Reality in a telemedical information society. In: Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1225. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031584
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