Adaptive script based animations for medical education and intervention planning

We describe scripting facilities to create medical animations for intervention planning as well as for educational purposes. We developed a data independent script language to separate animation scripts from imaging data. Our scripting facilities are adaptive and allow to reuse one script to create animations for many different patients where the same anatomic structures and their spatial relations should be visualized. Decomposition rules map abstract high-level instructions to low-level instructions. We designed an object classification and assigned visualization parameters to each category to make the scripting process more effective. We also discuss the enhancement of interactive explorations with animations generated on the fly. In particular, the automated emphasis of objects benefits from appropriate animations.