April 2007 Archives

April 17, 2007

SUMMIT at Media X

Today and yesterday SUMMITeers and collaborators made several 10 minute presentations at the 5th Annual Media X Conference held at Stanford University.

Here's a list of those who presented:

Monday 3:10pm
3-Scientific Imaging
Paul Brown
Consulting
Associate Professor, Medicine

Tuesday at 8:30am
Sonification of Golf Swing Biomechanics
Jessica Rose
Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery

10:30am
Learning Technologies For the Digital Generation
LeRoy Heinrichs
Associate Director, Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT)

Full conference details: MediaX.Stanford.edu

Posted by kwillis at 11:07 AM | Comments (0)

April 16, 2007

SUMMIT at Stanford Community Day

Over 60 people of (almost) all ages took SUMMIT's challenge Are you cut out to be a surgeon? yesterday, April 15 at Stanfords's Community Day. Many others looked on while their daughter, son, parent, friend, etc., got a first-hand look at 21st century medical education.

SUMMIT researchers led the enthusiastic audience in a hands-on demonstration of how surgeons can learn many of the basic skills needed for minimally invasive surgey. The demonstration featured LapSim, a product designed by SUMMIT team members in conjunction with Surgical Science, a Swedish company that provides tools for training medical professionals.

Almost 60 future surgeons used the interactive 3-D interface, learning surgical tasks tasks including coordination of laparoscopic tools, grasping, cutting, clipping, and suction. A few even tried the gall bladder surgery scenario on the virtual patient. Several future medical students came back multiple times, asking for tougher challenges.

This is one of the many demonstrations that SUMMIT provides to medical students, professional surgeons, and the general public about information technologies and their application to medical education.

Posted by cwcorn17 at 04:26 PM

April 05, 2007

Parvati Dev Featured in BusinessWeek Online

"The mind-bending new world of work"
Parvati Dev, associate dean of learning technologies and director of
Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies
(SUMMIT), is featured in this cover story on motion-capture
technology. For years, the technology has been used by film and video
game producers, and is now gaining popularity for other uses such as research.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_14/b4028001.htm?chan=search
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/03/0322_motion_capture/index_01.htm

Posted by kwillis at 04:37 PM

April 03, 2007

Photoshop CS3 Now Supports DICOM Medical Images

This version of Photoshop can import and extract metadata from DICOM files. It ships with a related scripts which opens a set of the images as individual files in Photoshop.

As part of its new Analysis tools, Photoshop can drop counters with automatic numbering and measure the distance and angle between two points. You can record the data on a point-by-point basis, then export the whole to a file.

The new software also features comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools, as well as MATLAB integration. The software will be available April 20th, 2007.

Posted by kwillis at 02:34 AM