Kinect & Osirix

Check out this video I received. It shows Microsoft kinect being used to control Osirix. It looks like a great product and I expect that we will see a lot more similar interfaces showing up soon.

Thanks for sending me the link Steffen.

As they mention in the video the use of hands free controls has major benefits and allows doctors to prevent infection and does not tie them down to a keyboard or mouse.

I hope all the major PACS vendors are looking at this and making their own versions that integrate with their products as I think a lot of doctors are going to start demanding this type of technology for their theaters once they see what is possible.

Microsoft Kinect PACS integration available soon?

I am sure that we will see doctors waving their arms around in front of computers in wards and theatres in the near future. Evoluce has made some progress in allowing microsoft kinect to control a windows based computer.

I am sure that the technology used could be easily adapted to manipulate radiology images in a PACS client.

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Microsoft Kinect and PACS?

Microsoft Kinect, previously known as Project Natal, has been released. It is a game controller for the x-box 360 that allows a player to control characters without the use of a controller. The system has sensors that monitor your movement and translate that into commands to move the characters.

I cant help but wonder how long it will take for someone to hack it to work on Windows and allow for doctors in theatre to scroll through images by waving their arms around. I think this would be a very useful tool which will free up the theatre doctors from having to mess around with a keyboard and mouse. (or a Wii remote)

If anyone knows about such a system please pop me a message.

More Visio Stencils

2012-03-01 - Updated to version 4: http://pacsworld.blogspot.com/2012/03/pacs-visio-stencils-version-4.html

I have updated the Radiology / PACS Visio stencils I posted in the past:
http://drop.io/pacsworld_visioStencil_01/
Link updated: http://www.mediafire.com/?mcpd293mkh6d3r9
Added Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17932085/radiology%20v3.vss


New Stencil contains the following Microsoft Office Visio items for radiology / PACS:

• MRI Scanner
• CT Scanner
• CR
• Radiologist Workstation * New
• Typing workstation with report * New
• Typing workstation with headphones * New
• Typing workstation with headphones & report * New
• Barcode printer * New
• Cassette

You can get the updated stencil from the link below:
http://drop.io/pacsworld_visioStencil_01/ Link updated: http://www.mediafire.com/?mcpd293mkh6d3r9
Added Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17932085/radiology%20v3.vss
Please let me know if you can think of any other useful Visio stencils I could add to the collection.
(Just pop a comment on this post)
(Update: 20-12-2010: Looks like drop.io has been sold to facebook and the service has been discontinued. I am trying mediafire now as google docs requires a signin to download the visio files. Please let me know if you have any issues accessing the files.)

(Update: 04/01/2011: Added the files to dropbox.com)