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University of Witwatersrand and Xsens Model The Biomechanics of a Paralympian
Biomechanics is complex. The body moves in a three-dimensional space, pulling and rotating. We see athletes perform stunning movement combinations on TV in a variety of sports. A basketball player pivots, fades back, and fires a three-pointer. A...
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Computational Model of Heart's Mitral Valve to Predict Surgery Outcomes
Mitral valve repairs are complex surgeries that require particular attention to each patient's unique anatomy, type of regurgitation such as in Carpentier’s classification, and other factors. Recently, transcatheter mitral valve implants have...
Informatics
Improving Healthcare Efficiency with Incentives: Interview with Ben Kraus, CEO of Stellar Health
Doctors are a busy bunch! From an endless stream of patients to frequent team meetings, from piles of paperwork to hours in the operating or emergency room – the list goes on. In a drastically slow and often back-logged healthcare system,...
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Kepler Vision Technologies Monitors Elderly at Home: CES 2019
An extra set of eyes can be important in manufacturing, air traffic control, medicine, and just about any other field. The elderly living alone at home can also benefit from someone maintaining an eye on them, while keeping their lives...
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ARIS MD Automatic Tissue Segmentation in Virtual and Augmented Reality: Aris MD at CES 2019
Medical imaging technologies have come a long way over the decades. They offer greater visual detail, but all that data often makes it difficult to see and understand the anatomy being studied. At CES 2019 we met with ARIS MD, a company that was...
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Medically Home Brings The Hospital Room to The House
Modern technological advancements have revolutionized the delivery of mail, how finances are handled, and many other spheres of our lives. We used to go to the bank and post office quite often, but most people deal with these places from a distance...
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RealMax Introduces Widest Field of View Augmented Reality Technology: CES 2019
Augmented reality technologies, such as the Microsoft HoloLens, are already finding applications in serious medicine, including complex surgery. The ability to overlay computer generated images over the real world has profound consequences in...
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what3words Addressing System for Medical Uses: Interview at CES 2019
Modern medicine relies a great deal on advanced technologies, but some of these technologies introduce new complications and existing systems muddy the waters further. GPS, for example, is highly accurate, but GPS coordinates are difficult to...
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When AI Looks at X-Rays: Interview with Qure.ai CEO, Prashant Warier
If you follow the recent advances in medical technology and artificial intelligence, you may have heard people make bold claims that AI will replace tomorrow’s doctors. While there are still ways to go for technology to reach these sci-fi levels,...
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