Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Author : J.D. Westwood,S.W. Westwood,L. Felländer-Tsai
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614996255

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In the early 1990s, a small group of individuals recognized how virtual reality (VR) could transform medicine by immersing physicians, students and patients in data more completely. Technical obstacles delayed progress but VR is now enjoying a renaissance, with breakthrough applications available for healthcare. This book presents papers from the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 22 conference, held in Los Angeles, California, USA, in April 2016. Engineers, physicians, scientists, educators, students, industry, military, and futurists participated in its creative mix of unorthodox thinking and validated investigation. The topics covered include medical simulation and modeling, imaging and visualization, robotics, haptics, sensors, physical and mental rehabilitation tools, and more. Providing an overview of the state-of-the-art, this book will interest all those involved in medical VR and in innovative healthcare, generally.

Author : J.D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614992097

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 20 by J.D. Westwood Pdf

Since 1992, when it began as the "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" conference, NextMed/MMVR has been a forum for researchers utilizing IT advances to improve diagnosis and therapy, medical education, and procedural training. Scientists and engineers, physicians and other care providers, educators and students, military medicine specialists, futurists, and industry: all come together with the shared goal of making healthcare more precise and effective. This book presents the proceedings of the 20th NextMed/MMVR conference, held in San Diego, California, USA, in February 2013. It covers a wide range of topics: simulation, modeling, imaging, data visualization, haptics, robotics, sensors, interfaces, plasma medicine, and more. Key applications include simulator design, information-guided therapies, learning tools, mental and physical rehabilitation, and intelligence networking. During the past two decades, healthcare has been transformed by progress in computer-enabled technology, and NextMed/MMVR has played a prominent role in this transformation.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614992080

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 20 by James D. Westwood Pdf

Since 1992, when it began as the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference, NextMed/MMVR has been a forum for researchers utilizing IT advances to improve diagnosis and therapy, medical education, and procedural training. Scientists and engineers, physicians and other care providers, educators and students, military medicine specialists, futurists, and industry all come together with the shared goal of making healthcare more precise and effective.This book presents the proceedings of the 20th NextMed/MMVR conference, held in San Diego, California, USA, in February 2013. It covers a wide range of topics simulation, modeling,

Author : J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607502258

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 by J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman Pdf

Our culture is obsessed with design. Sometimes designers can fuse utility and fantasy to make the mundane appear fresh—a cosmetic repackaging of the same old thing. Because of this, medicine—grounded in the unforgiving realities of the scientific method and peer review, and of flesh, blood, and pain—can sometimes confuse “design” with mere “prettifying.” Design solves real problems, however. This collection of papers underwrites the importance of design for the MMVR community, within three different environments: in vivo, in vitro and in silico. in vivo: we design machines to explore our living bodies. Imaging devices, robots, and sensors move constantly inward, operating within smaller dimensions: system, organ, cell, DNA. in vitro: Using test tubes and Petri dishes, we isolate in vivo to better manipulate and measure biological conditions and reactions. in silico: We step out of the controlled in vitro environment and into a virtual reality. The silica mini-worlds of test tubes and Petri dishes are translated into mini-worlds contained within silicon chips. The future of medicine remains within all three environments: in vivo, in vitro, and in silico. Design is what makes these pieces fit together—the biological, the informational, the physical/material—into something new and more useful.

Author : Brennan Spiegel
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781541699755

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VRx by Brennan Spiegel Pdf

A leading doctor unveils the groundbreaking potential of virtual medicine. Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. It offers the possibility of treating illnesses without solely relying on intrusive surgeries or addictive opioids. Virtual medicine works by convincing your body that it's somewhere, or something, it isn't. It's affordable, widely available, and has already proved effective against everything from burn injuries to stroke to PTSD. Spiegel shows how a simple VR headset lets a patient with schizophrenia confront the demon in his head, how dementia patients regain function in a life-size virtual town, and how vivid simulations of patients' experiences are making doctors more empathic. VRx is a revelatory account of the connection between our bodies and ourselves. In an age of overmedication and depersonalized care, it offers no less than a new way to heal.

Author : J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607501107

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13 by J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman Pdf

Magical describes conditions that are outside our understanding of cause and effect. What cannot be attributed to human or natural forces is explained as magic: super-human, super-natural. Even in modern societies, magic-based explanations are powerful because, given the complexity of the universe, there are so many opportunities to use them. The history of medicine is defined by progress in understanding the human body - from magical explanations to measurable results. To continue medical progress, physicians and scientists must openly question traditional models. Valid inquiry demands a willingness to consider all possible solutions without prejudice. Medical politics should not perpetuate unproven assumptions nor curtail reasoned experimentation, unbiased measurement and well-informed analysis. For thirteen years, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality has been an incubator for technologies that create new medical understanding via the simulation, visualization and extension of reality. Researchers create imaginary patients because they offer a more reliable and controllable experience to the novice surgeon. With imaging tools, reality is purposefully distorted to reveal to the clinician what the eye alone cannot see. Robotics and intelligence networks allow the healer’s sight, hearing, touch and judgment to be extended across distance, as if by magic. The moments when scientific truth is suddenly revealed after lengthy observation, experimentation and measurement, is the real magic. These moments are not miraculous, however. They are human ingenuity in progress and they are documented here in this book.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781586035839

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14 by James D. Westwood Pdf

The remarkable accomplishments of the IT industry and the Internet are trickling steadily into healthcare. This series provides more effective healthcare at a lower overall cost, driven by cheaper and better computers.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781607507055

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 by James D. Westwood Pdf

Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where multiple senses are engaged - sight, sound and touch - and language and image fuse. Precisely because this theatre is unreal, it is a valuable tool: the risks of experimentation and failure are gone, while the opportunity to understand remains. Improvement of this tool, through steady technological progress, is the purpose of MMVR. This book presents papers delivered at the MMVR18 / NextMed conference, held in Newport Beach, California, in February 2011, with contributions from international researchers whose work creates new devices and methods at the juncture of informatics and medicine. Subjects covered include simulation and learning, visualization and information-guided therapy, robotics and haptics, virtual reality and advanced ICT in Europe, validation of new surgical techniques, and many other applications of virtual-reality technology. As its name suggests, the NextMed conference looks forward to the expanding role that virtual reality can play in global healthcare. This overview of current technology will interest those who dedicate themselves to improving medicine through technology.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computer simulation
ISBN : 4274905705

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 11 by James D. Westwood Pdf

Author : J.D. Westwood,S.W. Westwood,L. Felländer-Tsai
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614993759

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 21 by J.D. Westwood,S.W. Westwood,L. Felländer-Tsai Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 21st NextMed/MMVR conference, held in Manhattan Beach, California, in February 2014. These papers describe recent developments in medical simulation, modeling, visualization, imaging, haptics, robotics, sensors, interfaces, and other IT-enabled technologies that benefit healthcare. The wide range of applications includes simulation for medical education and surgical training, information-guided therapies, mental and physical rehabilitation tools, and intelligence networks. Since 1992, Nextmed/MMVR has engaged the problem-solving abilities of scientists, engineers, clinicians, educators, the military, students, and healthcare futurists. Its multidisciplinary participation offers a fresh perspective on how to make patient care and medical education more precise and effective.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9051994451

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality by James D. Westwood Pdf

MMVR offers solutions for problems in clinical care through the phenomenally expanding potential of computer technology. Computer-based tools promise to improve healthcare while reducing cost - a vital requirement in today's economic environment. This seventh annual MMVR focuses on the healthcare needs of women. Women every where demand more attention to breast cancer, cervical cancer, ageing-related conditions. Electronic tools provide the means to revolutionise diagnosis, treatment and education. The book demonstrates what new tools can improve the care of their female patients. As minimally invasive procedures are mainstreamed, advanced imaging and robotics tools become indispensable. The internet and other networks establish new venues for communication and research. Medical education, as well as clinical care, is enhanced by systems allowing instruction and professional interaction in ways never before possible and with efficiency never before achieved. Telemedicine networks now permit providers to meet patients needs where previously impossible. MMVR strengthens the link between healthcare providers and their patients. The volume contains selected papers authored by presenters at the conference. Areas of focus include Computer-Assisted Surgery, Data Fusion & Informatics, Diagnostic Tools, Education & Training, Mental Health, Modelling, Net Architecture, Robotics, Simulation, Telemedicine, Telepresence and Visualisation.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computer simulation
ISBN : 1586031430

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Anatomical Accuracy in Medical 3D Modeling

Author : J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607501589

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14 by J.D. Westwood,R.S. Haluck,H.M. Hoffman Pdf

Machine intelligence will eclipse human intelligence within the next few decades - extrapolating from Moore’s Law - and our world will enjoy limitless computational power and ubiquitous data networks. Today’s iPod® devices portend an era when biology and information technology will fuse to create a human experience radically different from our own. Already, our healthcare system now appears on the verge of crisis; accelerating change is part of the problem. Each technological upgrade demands an investment of education and money, and a costly infrastructure more quickly becomes obsolete. Practitioners can be overloaded with complexity: therapeutic options, outcomes data, procedural coding, drug names etc. Furthermore, an aging global population with a growing sense of entitlement demands that each medical breakthrough be immediately available for its benefit: what appears in the morning paper is expected simultaneously in the doctor’s office. Meanwhile, a third-party payer system generates conflicting priorities for patient care and stockholder returns. The result is a healthcare system stressed by scientific promise, public expectation, economic and regulatory constraints and human limitations. Change is also proving beneficial, of course. Practitioners are empowered by better imaging methods, more precise robotic tools, greater realism in training simulators, and more powerful intelligence networks. The remarkable accomplishments of the IT industry and the Internet are trickling steadily into healthcare. The Medicine Meets Virtual Reality series can readily see the progress of the past fourteen years: more effective healthcare at a lower overall cost, driven by cheaper and better computers.

Author : Christopher M. Hayre,Dave J. Muller,Marcia J. Scherer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000319958

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Virtual Reality in Health and Rehabilitation by Christopher M. Hayre,Dave J. Muller,Marcia J. Scherer Pdf

This edited book focuses on the role and use of VR for healthcare professions in both health and rehabilitation settings. It is also offers future trends of other emerging technology within medicine and allied health professions. This text draws on expertise of leading medical practitioners and researchers who utilise such VR technologies in their practices to enhance patient/service user outcomes. Research and practical evidence is presented with a strong applied emphasis to further enhance the use VR technologies within the community, the hospital and in education environment(s). The book may also be used to influence policymakers on how healthcare delivery is offered.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computer vision in medicine
ISBN : 1586034049

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A Prototype Virtual Reality System for Preoperative Planning of Neuro-Endovascular Interventions -- Validation of Soft Tissue Properties in Surgical Simulation with Haptic Feedback -- Comparison of CAVE and HM for Visual Stimulation in Postural Control Research -- Virtual Vision Loss Simulator -- Reaction-Time Measurement and Real-Tune Data Acquisition for Neuroscientific Experiments in Virtual Environments -- A Preliminary Study of Presence inVirtual Reality Training Simulation for Medical Emergencies -- An Ali System with Intuitive User Interface for Manipulation and Visualization of 3D Medical Data -- A Haptic Surgical Simulator for the Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis Procedure During Cataract Surgery -- Haptic Rendering of Tissue Cutting with Scissors -- Increasing face validity of a vascular interventional training system -- An Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System for Assessment of Surgical Skill -- Acquiring Laparoscopic Manipulative Skills: A Virtual Tissue Dissection Training Module -- Novel Force Resolver Designs for a Haptic Surgery Simulator -- Author Index