Dear Advanced Visualization Insider,
Our current coverage from the 2011 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress highlights this edition of the AuntMinnieEurope.com Advanced Visualization Insider.
The utility of computer-aided detection (CAD) software for detecting more breast cancers has been researched for decades. But most of those studies are invalid due to a lack of statistical power, according to a presentation by Robert Nishikawa, PhD, of the University of Chicago Department of Radiology and Committee on Medical Physics.
Instead of focusing on an increase in cancer detection rate, users should apply CAD to help find cancers earlier, Nishikawa said. Staff writer Eric Barnes was on hand to provide our coverage of his talk, which you can find here.
Also, find out how and why the concept of personalized medicine has finally moved beyond the planning stage and into actual practice in another current article here.
Please be sure to check back in at av.auntminnieeurope.com for additional reporting on CARS in the coming weeks.
In other advanced visualization news, virtual surgery and 3D modeling are being viewed as invaluable tools in the burgeoning market of transcatheter cardiac valve device implantation. Contributing writer Edna Astbury-Ward shares the details in her article, which you can view by clicking here.
Just like they have in other aspects of social and professional life, collaborative social networks and open-source software are disruptive technologies that will transform medical imaging. That's the conclusion of a research team led by Dr. Osman Ratib of the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland. Learn why they feel that way here.
