medvis.org http://medvis.org all things medical visualisation Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en ECR 2008 http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/ http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:27:32 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/ I’m currently at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2008, staffing the Medical Delta booth in the Imagine section (level 2 in the Austria Centre, close to rooms X and Y), together with a number of cool people from the Erasmus Medical Centre Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam and the Leiden University Medical Centre Image Processing Laboratory. If you’re reading this and you’re in the neighbourhood, pop by for a chat and of course some complimentary stroopwafels and drop!

Update:

I’m back at the TU in Delft and the ECR should be finising by this afternoon. Also see the blog summaries of Marion Smits by clicking here, here and here. Below is a photo Marion took of our Medical Delta booth:

Cool Medical Delta people

]]> http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/feed/ Medical Visualization PhD position in Bergen, Norway http://medvis.org/2008/03/03/phd-fellowship-in-medical-visualization-in-bergen-norway/ http://medvis.org/2008/03/03/phd-fellowship-in-medical-visualization-in-bergen-norway/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:23:46 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2008/03/03/phd-fellowship-in-medical-visualization-in-bergen-norway/ The Visualization Group at the University of Bergen in Norway currently has a job opening for a 4-year PhD research fellowship in Medical Visualization. The successful candidate will perform his/her PhD research under the supervision of Prof.dr. Helwig Hauser and Dr. Ivan Viola, two internationally respected visualization scientists.

You can apply for this exciting position via the JOBBNORGE website until March 15, 2008.

Click here for the accompanying flyer.

Illustrative Medical Visualisation

]]> http://medvis.org/2008/03/03/phd-fellowship-in-medical-visualization-in-bergen-norway/feed/ TU Delft Medical Visualization Demo Reel (#1) http://medvis.org/2007/09/30/tu-delft-medical-visualization-demo-reel-1/ http://medvis.org/2007/09/30/tu-delft-medical-visualization-demo-reel-1/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:45:59 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2007/09/30/tu-delft-medical-visualization-demo-reel-1/ I’ve just put together a first attempt at a demo reel show-casing some of the Medical Visualization research being done at the Delft University of Technology (DUT, or TU Delft). Click here to see the YouTube version, or click here to download the higher quality Windows Media version.

]]> http://medvis.org/2007/09/30/tu-delft-medical-visualization-demo-reel-1/feed/ Siemens unveils MR-PET prototype http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/ http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/#comments Sun, 27 May 2007 12:05:46 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/ Siemens has unveiled the world’s first MR-PET scanner prototype. With this imaging system, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) images can be acquired simultaneously. MRI supplies anatomical (structural) information as context, whilst PET yields functional data, for example on the precise location of tumours and their metastases. See the image below for an example (courtesy of Siemens):

MR-PET slices.

This is yet another new example of “native” multi-field medical datasets, and underlines the need for research on techniques that are able to visualise this type of data.

(news via MedGadget)

]]> http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/feed/ Virtual colonscopy best method for screening http://medvis.org/2007/04/25/virtual-colonscopy-found-to-be-best-method-for-screening/ http://medvis.org/2007/04/25/virtual-colonscopy-found-to-be-best-method-for-screening/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:41:23 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2007/04/25/virtual-colonscopy-found-to-be-best-method-for-screening/ Virtual Colonoscopy with an optical colonoscopy followup, where non-diminutive lesions (< 6mm) are not reported, has been found to be the most cost-effective and safest method for screening. See this MedGadget blog, and this abstract in Cancer for more details.

The TU Delft Visualisation Group is also actively performing research on Virtual Colonoscopy. Our current focus is on automatic polyp detection by using vector field visualisation techniques. Click here for the research project page, or read “L. Zhao, C. P. Botha, J. O. Bescos, R. Truyen, F. M. Vos, and F. H. Post, Lines of curvature for improved diagnosis in virtual colonoscopy, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006″ (you can find this article on the group publications page).

Update:
Gerwin has just notified us of a new WebMD article also on this virtual colonoscopy study, this time concerning a new article published in the October 4 2007 issue of the NEMJ.

]]> http://medvis.org/2007/04/25/virtual-colonscopy-found-to-be-best-method-for-screening/feed/ Science in Silico http://medvis.org/2007/04/21/science-in-silico/ http://medvis.org/2007/04/21/science-in-silico/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:34:13 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2007/04/21/science-in-silico/ Seed Magazine has just published a beautiful video showing the role of simulation and visualization in modern science. See the video by clicking here.

]]> http://medvis.org/2007/04/21/science-in-silico/feed/ Visual Medicine tutorial at IEEE Visualization 2006 http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/ http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:23:24 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/ Yesterday, I attended a day-long tutorial at the IEEE Visualization 2006 conference dealing with most aspects of medical visualization. You can download all course materials by clicking on this link.

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