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Nurse, the screens! Doctors to build 3D computer ‘avatars’ of patients to ‘test’ treatments before prescribing
Professor Alejandro Frangi of Sheffield University said: ‘There is a lot of data about us in the healthcare system, but it is fragmented. I think the modelling framework gives us a mechanism - I like to see it as Google Earth, putting all of these different layers of information together.’
What is different about INSIGNEO is the direct link between engineers, computer scientists, clinical researchers and practising clinicians. ‘This ensures the models we develop will be relevant to, and therefore will be used in, the clinic.’
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