We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. To learn more, click here. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies. Cookie Policy.

Features Partner Sites Information LinkXpress
Sign In
Advertise with Us
GLOBETECH PUBLISHING LLC

Download Mobile App




Innovative new Virtual Reality tool Under Development

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 17 Jan 2017
Print article
Image: The animation shows how researchers are using 3D virtual reality, and machine learning for diagnosis (Photo courtesy of GE Healthcare).
Image: The animation shows how researchers are using 3D virtual reality, and machine learning for diagnosis (Photo courtesy of GE Healthcare).
Researchers are in the process of developing a tool that combines a virtual reality headset and anatomical 3D modeling of imaging data, to enable clinicians to navigate through the colon and search for polyps and other tumors.

The tool is one several innovations resulting from several decades of research that is currently focused on developing software to help doctors, surgeons, and radiologists perform diagnoses and make decisions using 3D modeling, Virtual Reality (VR) and big data.

The researchers from the GE Healthcare Global Center of Excellence in Medical Imaging Software are located in Buc, France, and are using images from GE scanners for targeted 3D modeling of organs in the human body using virtual reality, and VR headsets.

The new technology enables a clinician to observe an organ or structure from all angles, in cross-sectional view, in 3D and in flat mode. In addition, a surgeon can combine this with the use of a 3D printer to be able to handle a replica of an organ before an operation. The researchers are using the Internet cloud to share images from 30,000 imaging scanners for their research that also includes machine-learning techniques.

Software Director, Jérôme Gonichon, at GE Healthcare, said, “This is an ongoing development process. Today, we are collecting data from the way that we are using our equipment so that we can improve it. Tomorrow, we can teach the machine to recognize cancer by itself.”

Gold Member
Solid State Kv/Dose Multi-Sensor
AGMS-DM+
New
Brachytherapy Planning System
Oncentra Brachy
New
Breast Imaging Workstation
SecurView
Dose Area Product Meter
VacuDAP

Print article

Channels

Radiography

view channel
:	Image: The AI model could be a valuable adjunct to human radiologists in breast cancer diagnoses and risk prediction (Photo courtesy of 123RF)

AI Model Predicts 5-Year Breast Cancer Risk from Mammograms

Approximately 13% of U.S. women, or one in every eight, are predicted to develop invasive breast cancer over their lifetime, with 1 in 39 women (3%) succumbing to the illness, according to the American... Read more

Nuclear Medicine

view channel
Image: The AI system uses scintigraphy imaging for early diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis (Photo courtesy of 123RF)

AI System Automatically and Reliably Detects Cardiac Amyloidosis Using Scintigraphy Imaging

Cardiac amyloidosis, a condition characterized by the buildup of abnormal protein deposits (amyloids) in the heart muscle, severely affects heart function and can lead to heart failure or death without... Read more

General/Advanced Imaging

view channel
Image: The Cinematic Reality app enables interaction with realistic renderings of human anatomy (Photo courtesy of Siemens)

AR Application Turns Medical Scans Into Holograms for Assistance in Surgical Planning

Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) has launched an app designed for Apple Vision Pro that allows users including surgeons, medical students, or patients to view immersive, interactive holograms of... Read more

Industry News

view channel
Image: Samsung Medison CEO Mr. Yongkwan Kim and Bracco Imaging CEO Dr. Fulvio Renoldi Bracco endorsed a MoU agreement (Photo courtesy of Bracco Group)

Samsung and Bracco Enter Into New Diagnostic Ultrasound Technology Agreement

Samsung Medison (Seoul, South Korea) and Bracco Imaging (Milan, Italy) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to pioneer a new area for diagnostic ultrasound devices and contrast agents.... Read more
Copyright © 2000-2024 Globetech Media. All rights reserved.