Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents
The SimBio Project
The Visualisation Module

This document is the requirements specification for the visualisation module (VM) of the SimBio project [SimBio00]. The purpose of this module is, as its name suggests, to visualise the results from other SimBio modules, e.g. stress fields from bio-mechanical simulations or source localisation and influence from bio-electrical simulations.

The purpose of this document is to specify the intended functionality of the VM and how this functionality will be available to a user through a graphical user interface.

The SimBio Project

The central objective of the SimBio project is the improvement of clinical and medical practices by the use of numerical simulation for bio-medical problems. The project builds on significant expertise and prior developments for specific applications to construct a generic environment, running on parallel and distributed computing systems, capable of handling a range of important problems relevant to the target community of clinical and medical service providers. This innovative development is an enabling technology for advanced clinical practice and health care leading to improvements in: non-invasive prognosis and diagnosis, pre-operative planning, design and implantation of prostheses and postoperative verification and evaluation of treatment success. The application evaluations in the project will demonstrate the effectiveness of the SimBio environment and thus accelerate the take-up of this IT technology within the medical area.