Nomination for Innovation Award of the Hanze Institute of Technology for Kinect project

One of the students working on an assignment in my group to evaluate the use of the MS Kinect for use in the operating theatre has been nominated for the innovation award of the Hanze Institute of Technology based on this thesis work. The official press release can be found here.

Just a short demonstration video:

The student used the Kinect to allow a surgeon to walk through the data available for a patient using minimal gestures using an easy and intuitive user interface. We are currently trying to arrange the continuation of his project.

GE Healthcare and Microsoft unite to form Caradigm developing clinical apps on open technology platform

GE Healthcare and Microsoft have announced senior executives and the name of their joint health IT venture, which was announced in December. 

The new company, called Caradigm, is expected to launch in the first half of this year.

By developing clinical apps on an open and interoperable technology platform, Caradigm seeks to outfit health systems with system-wide intelligence meant to improve population health management.

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New Interactive Table

New development based on the Microsoft Surface software by Samsung. They introduce a surface table utilizing a new technology called PixelSense. PixelSense means that the screen can detect motion without the use of cameras.
Building from the innovation of the first version of Microsoft® Surface® and Samsung's leading display technology, it is now possible for people to share, collaborate and explore together using a large, thin display that recognizes fingers, hands and other objects placed on the screen.

KineMed - Gestural interface for Philips iSite

Developing a gestural user interface for examination of medical images using the Kinect. This project was done in association with residents from UPMC, Pittsburgh and was demonstrated at RSNA, 2011

Kinect and Medical Imaging

This is the first time that I really see some kind of workflow using gesture based interfaces. Most only interact with already selected data, here the selection of the data is also included.


Josh Wall from the InfoStrat Adavanced Technology Group demos a medical imaging application that uses the InfoStrat Motion Framework

Gesture Interface using Kinect for Medical Imaging Visualization in Surgeries

This work was developed in the Renato Archer Center for Information Technogy - CTI (www.cti.gov.br) in Campinas - SP, Brazil (3D Technologies Division) published at the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP2001).  The system allows the surgeon to control the medical imaging software InVesalius (also developed by CTI) without any physical contact, just by hand gestures. The system uses the OpenNI/NITE framework and is cross-platform (Windows/Linux).  Invesalius website: http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius

DICOM app enables image-sharing on Windows Phone 7

My Medical Images, a newly-released DICOM viewer application (app) from Peridot Technologies, allows users to browse, load and share medical images from their Microsoft HealthVault accounts with friends, family or physicians

DICOM app enables image-sharing on Windows Phone 7

Microsoft offers most of its health IT platform to GE venture

General Electric, through its healthcare IT business, and Microsoft plan to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organizations and professionals use system-wide tools to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience.
Microsoft offers most of its health IT platform to GE venture