Mayo Clinic uses smartphone images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine

A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network, was recently published in Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.

Bart Demaerschalk, M.D., neurologist and medical director of Mayo Clinic Telestroke, shows us how the smartphone technology works:

GE Has Clinical IMAGES iPhone App for Radiologists

Clinical IMAGES from GE Healthcare showcases clinical images obtained from GE Healthcare imaging systems. You can choose a product and browse by anatomy or by applications specific to the selected system. The application contains both static images and video of various image acquisitions.



References:
GE Healthcare Releases Clinical IMAGES iPhone App for Radiologists
Clinical IMAGES for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Microsoft software to "replace" radiologists - recognizes organs and structures in medical images

Microsoft Research, Mar 8, 2011: InnerEye focuses on the analysis of patient scans using machine learning techniques for automatic detection and segmentation of healthy anatomy as well as anomalies:



Antonio Criminisi is the the researcher shown in the video above.

The InnerEye research project focuses on the automatic analysis of patients' scans by using machine learning techniques for:

- Automatic detection and segmentation of healthy anatomy, as well as anomalies

- Semantic navigation and visualization

Microsoft Research methods aim to combine medical expertise and modern machine learning theory in the design of tools for computer-aided diagnosis, personalized medicine, and natural user interfaces for surgical intervention.

The InnerEye project has a host of famous collaborators, including Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, The University of Oxford, Cornell Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Washington, Kings College London, and Cambridge University Hospitals.

High-Performance Cancer Screening: See how a high--performance, 3-D rendering engine can be transformed into a real-world, life-saving medical application:



References:

Medical Image Analysis

InnerEye: Visual Recognition in the Hospital
A Search Engine for the Human Body. Technology Review.

Comments from Twitter:

@hrana (Hisham Rana, MD): No thanks. RT @DrVes: Microsoft software to "replace" radiologists - recognizes organs and structures in medical images http://goo.gl/HwNNx

@doctorwhitecoat (Vamsi Balakrishnan): Definitely not a replacement... but cool tool in development.

@DrVes: Well, of course it's not a replacement... :) Just as "Watson" supercomputer won't replace PCPs/specialists...

@doctorwhitecoat (Vamsi Balakrishnan): Watson can't replace 3rd year Med students either; it can't do scutwork...:)

@ILoveOrthopedix (Orthopaedic Resident): MS Radiology! very interesting - the ECG machines recognise patterns & give diagnoses, but all the doctors make their own diagnosis.

@drcrosby (Bradley Dick): Reminiscent of Robin Cook's "Brain"?! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_(novel))