Advances in Medical Healthcare Using Computer Visualisation

Location: Putteridge Bury Conference Centre

Time: 18.00 - 18.30 registration and coffee

Cost: £10 (including VAT) and includes wine, finger buffet and networking

Speakers: Professor Gordon Clapworthy + others

Computer graphics and animation are increasingly being utilised to provide significant advances in medical healthcare.

Medical visualisation, for example, provides the latest interactive imaging techniques that allows the opportunity to explain clearly and fluidly the complex nature of disease. This will have a positive, profound impact on patient recovery times as fundamental information can be communicated clearly to the patient ranging from explanation of disease processes, degenerative condition or everyday surgical procedures, post-care management and recovery regimes.

With digital prototyping, within a few years surgeons could have the ability to touch a virtual patient within seconds of having scanned a real patient for the data, and plan the management of the disease process, in particular the surgical intervention.

The Centre for Computer Graphics and Visualisation at the University of Bedfordshire is a leader in research into medical visualisation. It has a strong record in collaborative work, having been a partner in 15 major international projects in recent years. One such project is the European Commission initiative on the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) in which Professor Gordon Clapworthy, Head of Computer Graphics, has been heavily involved. This is a long-term programme to develop a model of the workings of the human body. This will have a dramatic impact on the future of of how medicine is practised and healthcare provided.

At this talk we'll be revealing some of the latest developments in computer graphics and medical visualisation that can improve our health today and in the future.

Full details to follow shortly....