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TED-Ed · August 20 · 23 min

Visualizing the medical data explosion - Anders Ynnerman

Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? In this talk, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. (Filmed at TEDxGöteborg.) Talk by Anders Ynnerman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? In this talk, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. (Filmed at TEDxGöteborg.)

Talk by Anders Ynnerman.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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