Together with Professor Herbert Zeman, I designed the first study using the VeinViewer in medical treatment in March 2005 at Luminetx, Memphis, TN. The first study was done at Clinica Miyake in April2005. The VeinViewer films the skin in infra-red, the image is continuously processed and projected back to the skin, in the same axel due to a hot mirror, with a fraction of a second delay. This spatial augmented reality device was used to find and treat small varicosities and feeder veins.
Augmented reality is the combination of a real image with computer generated image. The types are:
- Video See-Through: most common, like videogames that "put" us in the screen. Other example is the car rear camera with lines projecting the direction the car will go when you steer
- Glass see-through: google glass, car head display
- indirect: Using laptop computer camera and QR codes
- Spatial: image is projected on the interested area and there is no need of glass or video between your eyes and the object
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Your work is very interesting. There has been earlier work in architectural branches as well as in the automotive industry, e.g. to visualize the flow in combustion engines by several Institutes, for example by: www.vrvis.at
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Mario
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The UI used AR techniques to e.g. place/show arbitrarily oriented CT slices.
btw.: Does the vein viewer also show hematoma?
Very interesting Alexander Bornik! They were using video-seethrough Augmented Reality. I've been using spatial see through augmented reality. There is also glass see through (google glass) and indirect augmented reality (though webcam in a laptop)
The VeinViewer can see everything that is blood or pigmented such as tattoo and mols. If the hematoma is up to 5-6mm deep. The veinviewer will see it
Congratulations Roberto Kasuo Miyake! Many other researchers were using virtual and augmented reality in medical applications before 2000 (see Medicine Meets Virtual Reality proceedings as an overview) and parent journals in medicine, engineering, optical imaging, robotics and computing sciences. Our team's research and applications were in Laparoscopic Surgery in the Operating Room, and Training tools for Surgeons. We also designed see through and multimodal AR interfaces in "the Virtual Hand Lab" at Simon Fraser University. My research focused on using AR tools, to accomplish surgical goals/outcomes, based on hierarchical decomposition to task and action/motion levels, with and without hand tools, in the user's hand(s). Also, to understand the human multiple processing channels, and sensory-motor foundations for optimal design of such AR tools in medical / health fields. You can see our publications and also my colleagues and former students, Stella Atkins, Kellogg Booth, Caroline Cao, Randy Ellis, Alan Lomax, Shahram Payandeh, Tim Salcudean, Lee Swanstrom, and Bin Zheng, all members of Research Gate. I am now retired, and enjoy following the literature. I encourage those interested to pursue their passions. Best wishes to you and others in this evolving, exciting field.
Thank you very much Christine L MacKenzie!
One interesting thing about what I've been doing is that the Augmented Reality is crucial on the classification decision. That means it changes our treatment option. After diagnosis, we use AR (VeinViewer) to guide the laser and to do CLaCS technique on the feeder veins. The VeinViewer is so intuitive and precise that the learning curve is very short. I can't treat my patients or even examine them without it.
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I would think Maureen Holden has done medical work w/ augmented reality prior to 2005. She used to work with Bizzi at M.I.T. and then later at Northeastern.
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