ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Despite advances in imaging acquisition technologies, surgeons and other clinicians still work with 2D images to understand complex 3D anatomy, and that involves a kind of mental translation that makes their jobs difficult. Software company EchoPixel is extracting more information from image data acquired by conventional CT and MRI systems to create and display detailed 3D images that surgeons can use to more accurately plan surgeries.
Medical imaging is the next frontier for disruptive innovation in medtech, and indeed it’s somewhat surprising—given that most medical images are digitized and able to be manipulated on computers—that the way clinicians use medical images has not fundamentally changed in decades.
