Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
www.ted.com Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools — like virtual autopsies — for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http
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June 8th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
OMG!!! i feel soo cool right now from buying my AMD 6970 lol!
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June 8th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
If you have like 24k images ranging from top to bottom on the belly I can’t really see how it can take long time to grab specific images for what you wanna see from a software design perspective with todays technology, maybe I misunderstood the complication in the beginning of the video. I mean just split them up and use simple coordinates in th filename and use very simple math to calculate which image to open.
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June 8th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
GRAPHIC CARDS=GOOD; KNIVES=BAD…GOT IT.
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June 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
As an undergrad in Computer Science it fascinates me to think about kind of problems these people are working on.
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June 8th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
It’d be great to get into this field. Data visualisation, particularly in increasingly data-rich fields such as medicine, is just so exciting.
To show someone a graph, that instantly and intuitively explains pages of data… just gives one a real buzz.
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June 8th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
@Paganel75 this comment excites me.
edit: lol the capcha text was “FISTABLE”
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June 8th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
@joerotter2222 Do you get offended by medical statistics too?
AAHHHH MOTHERLAND!!!!
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June 8th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
@imaginenoreligion Such jokes are impossible to spot, due to “Poe’s Law”.
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June 8th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
@sileb13 May last year (2010).
But the content was probably prepared earlier again.
it’s no biggy.
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June 8th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
@p0ison1vy hahaha you’re a little late.
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June 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
@zx8754 yeah it would have been more helpful to compare it to the amount of information stored in DNA (either per weight, or in one cell, or or a whole body, etc). At least it would be a relevant biological data comparison.
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June 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
@Sinuev1 of even better, the whole thing would be free to all (since the software development was probably funded with public research dollars anyway) And the kids will be able to continue playing around with it at home.
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June 8th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
@sublimeisdope yeah sure, if we feed you raw numbers you’re going to build up a 3D zoomable topographical image in your head.
fuck off
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June 8th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
@ShallowBeThyGames it might have been ironic if she was complaining about spelling while making a spelling mistake. But she wasn’t – she was complaining about dumbed down TED talks.
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June 8th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Now I understand why I cannot keep my place in order : whenever I am searching something, I am making a mess of all the rest. What is needed is RFIDS on all my things and a way to visualize my flat in interactive 3D on a screen so I can find anything without disturbing the existing, er, order.
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June 9th, 2011 at 12:03 am
@sebastianbrosche Not really. The 6970 is just a gpu, to get it you have to buy a card made by several manufacturers. I’m not promoting any of them.
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June 9th, 2011 at 12:44 am
@Aslapacrosstheface “it cannot only generate high quality medical scans, but also run Crysis at 1920×1200 with 4x Anti Aliasing” next ad for HD 6970 ?
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June 9th, 2011 at 1:02 am
The real CSI – amazing!
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June 9th, 2011 at 1:50 am
The real CSI – amazing!
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June 9th, 2011 at 2:01 am
@joerotter2222
This guy is just a troll. no one could be this short sighted?
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June 9th, 2011 at 2:54 am
Yeah! My HD 6970 can not only run Crysis at 1920×1200 with 4x Anti Aliasing, it can also generate high quality medical scans.
Technology is awesome!
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June 9th, 2011 at 3:04 am
this is great news…
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June 9th, 2011 at 3:57 am
So impressive.
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June 9th, 2011 at 4:03 am
Incredible.
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June 9th, 2011 at 4:19 am
@joerotter2222
I don’t have any background in medicine or anything of the sort but surely, the more information you have, the more oppertunity you have to find important information?
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