Virtual Bronchoscopy MQP

 
    Every WPI student must complete an MQP in order graduate. MQP stands for Major Qualifying Project which is a project equivalent to 3 courses where a group of students complete a project in the discipline of their major. This particular project took place from September to November 1998 in Sydney, Australia. Our sponsor was CSIRO, a research organization based in Australia.  The members of this project were John Stevens, Kevin Donahue, and Tom Germano and our advisor was Prof. Ward.
 
    We were given 6 AVS fields which consisted of two different fields in 3 different resolution (low, medium, and high.) To accompany the fields, we were also given 4 text files which held the points of the middle of the vessels called the midpoint spline. These files were in two different resolutions (low and medium) for the two different field sets. In addition to the data for AVS, we were given a VRML object to experiment with in our VRML and java visualizations.

    Our objective was to create virtual flythroughs of the given data and we ended up doing flythroughs using 3 different paradigms: VRML, java and VRML, and AVS. By approaching visualizations in three different ways we were able to discover the strengths and weakness of each approach and from these discoveries make a general statement on the state of virtual flythroughs today.

    Sydney MQP Web Page
    For more information on this particular project including a 176pg explanation of each approach contact WPI at:

    WPI
    100 Institute Rd.
    Worcester, MA 01609
    (508) 831 - 5000
 
 

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