The Future of Wearable Computing - IEEE - The Institute

The Future of Wearable Computing - IEEE - The Institute

RP-VITA Approved for Hospital Use, SUGV Approved for Disruptor Use

RP-VITA Approved for Hospital Use, SUGV Approved for Disruptor Use

Hands-On With the Next Generation Kinect: PrimeSense Capri

Hands-On With the Next Generation Kinect: PrimeSense Capri

Preliminary version of e-book on Medical Visualization published

I've just published a preliminary version of my e-book on medical visualization at this blog. It is far from complete and some whole chapters are still unfinished or even empty, but I wanted to put out this priliminary version out for my students in the Biomedical Engineering course that I am teaching. So please download the e-book and give me your comments. Do you like it or not? What should be changed or added? Any comments are most welcome. New versions will appear in the near future on this page.

Just go to the e-books and whitepapers tab on this blog to get to the download location.

iPod during knee surgery

A novel application of the iPod was recently published. The iPod is used to display pre-operatively acquired images of the patient operated upon. These images are displayed on the iPod correctly by using tracking devices to detect the position and orientation of the iPod in the operating theatre. The surgeon can review images during surgery of specific locations on the iPod. An iPad can be placed in the operating theatre to allow other people involved in the procedure see the images the surgeon has on his/her iPod.

Read this article of USA Today on the use of an iPod during knee surgery.

IBM’s Watson Goes to Med School

After IBM's supercomputer Watson beat the human brain in Jeopardy it will now go to med-school to be trained to support oncologic surgeons in their planning and treatment.

IBM’s Watson Goes to Med School

NEW! IHE Radiology White Papers Published

The IHE Radiology Technical Committee has published the following white papers as of December 17, 2012:

• Cross-Enterprise Screening Mammography Workflow Definition
• Management of Radiology Report Templates 

New on this blog! Whitepapers as e-books

In an additional tab to this blog I've started to include e-books of whitepapers I wrote earlier. During the coming weeks I will attempt to add more if time permits.

The first whitepaper is on "Classification of Different Server-Client Models in PACS and Advanced Visualization".

Furthermore, somewhere in the coming weeks I will include an e-book that I'm composing for my teaching course in Medical Imaging Informatics shortly in a first, rudimentary, version. This version will be freely available provided that when you download and read it you also provide me with comments and feedback on how to improve it.

Cybercriminals Hold Australian Medical Clinic Electronic Patient Records Hostage

The danger of having an EPR that is not properly project. Read the news story on IEEE about cybercriminals that have hyjacked the electronic patient record of an Australian clinic. They broke into the computer system, encrypted all patient data on the system and are now asking for randsom money to decrypt the data again.

Go here for an ABC news TV item, click below to read the story on the IEEE Spectrum website.

Cybercriminals Hold Australian Medical Clinic Electronic Patient Records Hostage

RSNA 2012 - IHE Image Sharing Demonstration

IHE Image Sharing Demonstration
PURPOSE/AIM
The IHE Image Sharing Demonstration will showcase developments in radiology informatics, standards-based interoperability and image sharing. The demonstration will include: Exchange The IHE Image Sharing Demonstration will showcase developments in radiology informatics, standards-based interoperability and image sharing. The demonstration will include: Exchange of medical images and reports using personal health record (PHR) accounts as in the RSNA Image Share pilot project, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The image exchange architecture is based on the IHE Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) profile.Patient radiation dose monitoring in local and national settings based on DICOM Dose Structure Reports (SRs) and the IHE Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) profile.Ordering and scheduling of radiology procedures using procedure names from the RSNA RadLex Playbook.Generation of radiology diagnostic reports using structured templates developed by the RSNA Reporting Committee and including RadLex terminology.Exporting image data exported from PACS using the IHE Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export (TCE) profile and using this data to author teaching files and processing of images for clinical trials using the RSNA MIRC software.