Using current technology in medical illustration and application proposal

There is no doubt that our most effective tool in making sense is seeing. For a long time, humanity has actively used the power of seeing through drawing for various reasons such as self-expression, information, and documentation. As a matter of fact, it is possible to understand this from the drawings made on the cave walls. Some cave drawings, which are the first examples of art, have moved from cave walls to paper and digital media with the advancing time. Thanks to the ever-increasing knowledge of humanity, it has diversified and created different fields of expertise and their sub-fields. Even though the history of medical illustration, which is one of these specialties, dates to 1600 BC, medical illustration examples that are considered professionally emerged because of the invention of the printing press. Computer and internet technologies, which entered our lives in the middle of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century, started the process we call digitalization and changed our search for information, the solutions we produced for them, and our behaviors. In this new era called digitalization, the increasing use of digital media such as VR, AR, XR, in the field of medicine, and the interest in 3D graphics and digital materials have paved the way for a period in which traditional methods have begun to be abandoned in medical illustration. In this thesis, digital imaging methods, artificial intelligence and photogrammetry will be used to investigate the usability of technologies such as digital imaging methods, artificial intelligence, and photogrammetry, which allow creating 3D graphics.