Posts Tagged ‘software’
Health & Medicine - Dec 7, 2009 11:08 - 3 Comments
Getting the bugs out of giving meds
ILLINOIS (US)—Software design principles and debugging methods are helping researchers identify a way to reduce the number of injuries and deaths related to errors in how drugs are administered to hospital patients. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 16, 2009 12:38 - 2 Comments
Doctors take 3-D tour before surgery
IOWA STATE (US)—James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen, and zipped through a patient’s chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. Oliver was using new software that allows doctors to take an accurate, 3-D tour of a patient’s anatomy in advance of surgery. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 5, 2009 13:21 - 0 Comments
Getting inside Carl’s head to study the brain
UC IRVINE (US)—A robot powered by recorded rodent brain impulses may help researchers understand how people recognize and adapt to change. Findings from the work could advance robotic design as well as knowledge of human behavior. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 10, 2009 12:37 - 0 Comments
Software speeds hunt for cancer triggers
Rachel Karchin, right, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and doctoral student Hannah Carter led a Johns Hopkins team that developed software to narrow the search for mutations linked to cancer. (Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins)
Earth & Environment - Jul 10, 2009 11:50 - 0 Comments
Pairing radar, acoustics to track birds near wind farms
This animation illustrates the use of a network of surveillance weather radar to record nocturnal migrating birds, bats, and insects in the continental U.S. from sunset to sunrise Oct. 1, 2008. The blocky green, yellow, and red patterns, especially visible on the east coast, represent precipitation; but within an hour after sunset, radar picks up biological activity, as seen in the widening blue and green circles spreading from the east across the country. The birds, bats, and insects take off, fly past, and get sampled by the radar beam. Note, the black areas on the map do not represent places without birds, necessarily, but rather places where radar does not sample.
Health & Medicine - Jun 23, 2009 16:23 - 0 Comments
Wall-sized images reveal human body in 3-D
UC Irvine professor Joerg Meyer has developed software that renders medical data in 3-D on HIPerWall, a tiled display of 50 computer screens. (Credit: Daniel A. Anderson/UC Irvine)
