Kinect Brain Scan = Augmented Reality for Neurosurgeons

Fantastic Development of using Kinect to look inside the patient. Apparently, the SDK will become available soon. See the IEEE coverage or check-out the youtube movie.
Kinect Brain Scan = Augmented Reality for Neurosurgeons

Normal video to detect subtle medical measures

This is fantastic! Researchers from MIT use normal video input to detect subtle changes in the video showing pulsation of vessels and breathing motion. This is really applicable!

New advances in speech recognition and translation

Demonstration of new technology developments in speech recognition and transcription combined with translation that even allows voice translation. Very promising example and perhaps the future in tele-radiology allowing radiologists all over the world to dictate in their own language and having automatic translation of their report into the language of the requesting party.

New and improved gesture based interaction for medical data using MS Kinect

The guys at iHealthLab in Italy further improved their gesture based interaction system for medical data using the Kinect. They have included interaction with 3D visualizations and all kinds of other cool features. Check it out at their website.

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