World of Health IT 2008 News & Announcements
European prize awarded for 3D patient modeling
23 October, 2008
A scientific pioneer in computational medical image analysis was this week awarded one of the largest international prizes in science, the Royal Society and Académie des Sciences Microsoft Award.
Professor Nicholas Ayache, a Research Director at INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), was be awarded €250,000 as part of the prize, funded by Microsoft.
The award will fund Professor Ayache's proposal to allow clinicians to develop individual, patient-tailored 3D models of heart disease, brain tumours and other conditions.
The 3D models will help clinicians to make early diagnoses, and surgeons to simulate different possible interventions, to aid successful therapies.
