It
looks as if CNET Writer Elizabeth
Armstrong Moore is on to something with regards to the usage of the Microsoft
Kinect in the field of Medicine as stated in the article “Surgeons use Kinect tech
during aneurysm procedures”, published June 1, 2012 3:05 PM PDT by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET News. But more interestingly to Medical
Science Students, the usages being discovered for the Microsoft Kinect means
that they can learn surgical procedures on the cheap!
This as the Microsoft Kinect Game System with the right software
can be used to study:
1.
Massage Therapy
2.
Anatomy
3.
Surgical Procedures
All without the need to buy expensive books or even go to anatomy class
(at your peril of course!!). The interest in the Microsoft Kinect is somewhat similar
to the current ongoing research into the Health Benefit of Gaming Consoles such
as the Nintendo Wii as stated in the article “Body
versus mind: Gaming and your health”, Published March 5, 2012 By Jeff Hughes, DigitalTrends.
Last
year on April Fools 2011AD Google tried to prank everyone with their spoof
product “Introducing Gmail Motion” that was supposed to make accessing you email via PrimeSense’s
3D Motion Capture Technology aka Microsoft Kinect a snap.
As you would have realized if you had read my blog
article entitled “Gmail Motion is SLOOW & other
April Fool's Jokes - Armstrong's Firefly” University of South
California PhD candidate Evan Suma turned it around on Google and breathed life into
their prank.
He modified his Research Group’s software dubbed FAAST (for Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit)
into SLOOW (Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving). SLOOW is a software workaround using the Microsoft Kinect
that effectively allows patient recuperating from illness to manipulate computers
and other things around them.
This using Microsoft Kinect’s 3D Motion Capture Technology as
described in the article “Google prank + Kinect hack -= useful Health
tech”, published April 4, 2011 3:47 PM PDT by Elizabeth Armstrong
Moore, CNET News - Health Tech.
Since then other hacks have abounded pertaining to the Medical
field, with the teaching of Anatomy coming from a team out of
the Technical University of Munich in Germany readily to mind as
described in the article “Use Kinect to teach anatomy?
It's a 'Mirracle'!”, published January 31, 2012 11:42 AM PST by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET News.
Not
to mention New York University
grad student Jason Stephens use of a video projector, Kinect, and OpenKinect
Libraries programming tools to script a program to observe
the effects of massage on the body as stated in the article “Kinect
hack allows for 'intelligent healing' massage”, published June
9, 2011 12:21 PM PD by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET News.
A demonstration of a practical benefit of the
3D Motion Capture Technology that is Microsoft Kinect as described in my blog article entitled “Internet, Apple iTV and Cable - Pirates of the Caribbean”. Microsoft has however been taking its Kinect
more seriously and has been dabbling with the idea of licensing its Kinect
peripheral for general use on PC.
Microsoft has been collaborating with surgeons in London on using the 3D Motion Capture Technology on Aneurism Procedures as stated in the article “Surgeons use Kinect tech during aneurysm procedures”, published June 1, 2012 3:05 PM PDT by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET News.
The advantages are the same as PhD Evan Suma SLOOW hack:
1.
Reduced reliance on Surgical
Assistants when I come to accessing critical information from computer,
traditionally tactile devices, during an operation
2. Surgeons can keep their hands on their work with and manipulate
display data on computers i.e. CAT Scans, ECG Readings, Patient History thereby
maintaining a sterile work environment
As
Tom Carrell, senior lecturer at King's College
London and a vascular surgeon, expresses it in a new release, quote: “Touchless
interaction means there is no compromise in the sterility of the operating
field or in patient safety”.
With
future collaborations planned between Microsoft Research and King's College London,
Lancaster University on vascular patients at St. Thomas' Hospital an on
neurosurgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, the dream of hands-free
manipulation of images during surgical operations is moving from Science Fiction
to reality.
It
also makes Gross Anatomy (1989)
Classes and the teaching of other Medical Sciences courses that much more
easily to understand when it’s done using a Gaming System that is still the
hottest selling Gaming peripheral on the market as stated in my blog
article entitled “Nintendo Wii vs Microsoft Kinect -
War of the Worlds in Jodine Spark's BattleField” and the article “10 million a magic number for Microsoft's Kinect”, published March 9, 2011 12:09 PM PST by Don
Reisinger, The Digital Home - CNET News.
Combined with Apple’s Siri, Microsoft Kinect beckons us to
enter a remoteless Surgical future controlled by our Voice and body movements as
prognosticated in my Geezam blog article
entitled “Siri
and Kinect: Heralds of a coming world free of Remote Controls”.
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