Los Alamos scientist recognised with SPIE award
Ken Hanson, a medical imaging research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has received the SPIE Directors’ Award in recognition of his contribution to SPIE medical imaging
Ken Hanson, a medical imaging research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has received the SPIE Directors’ Award in recognition of his contribution to SPIE medical imaging
A trial using deep learning algorithms has shown that artificial intelligence has the potential to assist technicians and detect human errors in medical image handling
A smartphone camera adapter for retinal imaging that will make it easier to carry out eye examinations has been launched
The University of Glasgow has opened a £32 million Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE), a medical research facility that will bring together world-leading research, cutting-edge technology and international business investment
European scientists are developing an augmented reality surgical visor capable of superimposing a patient’s x-ray images and other medical information in perfect 3D unison with their anatomy
Miniature image sensors and LED chips in endoscopes are enabling doctors to look further inside the body to diagnose medical conditions, and cameras are now even placed inside pills that the patient swallows. Beth Harlen investigates
Jessica Rowbury takes a look at how imaging technologies are being used to test, diagnose and study disease
Carlos Lee, director general of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), reports from a recent biophotonics workshop looking at imaging to aid surgical removal of tumours
Securing an intravenous line in a patient can be a painful procedure if the nurse is unable to find a vein. Now, imaging devices are becoming available that use infrared light to make veins easier to locate, as Jessica Rowbury discovers
Cardiac doctors have trialled a 3D holographic imaging system as an aid in minimally invasive heart procedures. Jessica Rowbury speaks to Dr Elchanan Bruckheimer, a paediatric cardiologist who presented the results of the trial at a recent cardiovascular symposium
A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition