To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis and heart disease. The prototype tool, called "HemoVis," creates a 2D diagram of arteries that performs better than the traditional 3D, rainbow-colored model. In a clinical setting, the tool has been shown to increase diagnostic accuracy from 39% to 91%.