Visualizing the Medical Data Explosion

YouTube·TED

Explore cutting-edge medical visualization techniques in this TED talk by scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman. Discover how doctors analyze thousands of images and terabytes of patient data generated by modern medical scans in seconds. Learn about sophisticated new tools, including virtual autopsies, that help parse this vast amount of information and determine what's clinically relevant. Get a glimpse into futuristic medical technologies currently in development. Be aware that this presentation contains some graphic medical imagery as it delves into the challenges and innovations in handling the explosion of medical data.