New AR System to Help Medical Industry

An Augmented Reality System that could help clinicians manipulate and interact with patient imaging scans, related anatomical models and data from electronic medical records is being developed at Birmingham City University by researchers.

Many practical use cases for this technology are envisioned, including helping to relay to patients the effect of their lifestyle choices, how their anatomies are impacted by various diseases and what to expect from interventional procedures. The article by medgadget.com also states that this could be a practical hands-free way of navigating through tomography scans during surgeries without having to worry about maintaining sterility.

To track a person controlling the system cameras are used. Different gestures with your arms and hands can trigger certain actions like moving or rotating the virtual anatomy and sifting through different image sources. The article states that this is being designed to be open to integration with a wide variety of data sources and applicable to different diseases and conditions.

Dr. Ian Williams of Birmingham City University said: “The real advantages this brings are being able to visually demonstrate parts of the anatomy, using virtual models which can be customised for each patient and show how they have been impacted by lifestyle choices or how they may be changed following treatments or surgery.”

 

 

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