Artificial Intelligence-"I want Corvix to help me as well"

"Around the world, the health care system is rife with inefficiencies, and General Electric thinks it can help solve the problem using data. GE has built an artificial intelligence system called Corvix that uses historical data to predict the future, including everything from how diseases will spread to the cities where hospitals will be needed the most.

Reference- Gigaom.com

CT-MRI combined Scanner -Proposed

Ge Wang et al have proposed a combined CT-MRI.  According to them combined CT-MRI scanner would reduce residual errors, enable simultaneous anatomical and functional imaging, and minimize exposure to ionizing radiation. Although multimodal imaging systems have become increasingly popular, a combined CT-MRI system has not yet been attempted.  They have designed the CT-MRI scanner based on realistic numerical simulation and engineering optimization.

Reference:  G. Wang, F. Liu, F. Liu, G. Cao, H. Gao, M. W. Vannier, Top-level design of the first CT-MRI scanner, 2013. Paper accepted at the Int'l. Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Med., Lake Tahoe, CA, 17 June 2013.

Google Glass- Future is Nearer Than You Imagine

Google Glass is essentially a computer you wear as glasses – hands-free, voice-activated, and literally in your face. Glass is slated for public release at the end of 2013. Tremendous futuristic possibilities are there for physicians and particularly radiologists who routinely require data mining for  differential diagnosis. For more insight into future which is not so far away read this article. For more insight into future which is not so far away read this article from Software Advice

Will Google Glass Change the Face of Medicine?

Indian Film Superstar may be in trouble in PNDT act

Even before the gossip mills could tire of the latest offering from Bollywood, the unconfirmed news put Shah Rukh and Gauri in the eye of what could turn into a big legal storm. MidDay had quoted a friend of the family as saying that the baby is a boy. 

Even though the couple has not confirmed the news, a radiologists’ association has sought an immediate probe into the news, pointing out that finding out the sex of a baby before it is born is illegal in India. Therefore, they said, if reports of the baby are indeed true and the sex is already known to SRK and his kin, then the star must be hauled up for pre-natal sex determination. 

Extensive collaterals-Coronary Angiography

A heart thriving on innumerable collaterals . Totally occluded circumflex , right coronary artery and diseased left anterior descending.

Contributed by Dr Rakesh Gopal , Apollo hospital Chennai 

(Consultant Interventional Cardiologist)

Studied Interventional Cardiology at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology