Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine最新文献

This paper focuses on the method for creating 3-dimensional (3D) digital models extracted from patient- specific scans of the brain. The described approach consists of several cross-platform stages: raw data segmentation, data correction in 3D-modelling software, post-processing of the 3D digital models and their presentation on an interactive web-based platform. This method of data presentation offers a cost and time effective option to present medical data accurately. An important aspect of the process is using real patient data and enriching the traditional slice-based representation of the scans with 3D models that can provide better understanding of the organs' structures. The resulting 3D digital models also form the basis for further processing into different modalities, for example models in Virtual Reality or 3D physical model printouts. The option to make medical data less abstract and more understandable can extend their use beyond diagnosis and into a potential aid in anatomy and patient education. The methods presented in this paper were originally based on the master thesis 'Transparent Minds: Testing for Efficiency of Transparency in 3D Physical and 3D Digital Models', which focussed on creating and comparing the efficiency of transparent 3D physical and 3D digital models from real-patient data.

Bereavement is one of the most emotionally intense situations healthcare staff can find themselves in and requires extensive communication training to work in. While other healthcare staff receive specific training in bereavement, clinical photographers do not receive much, if any, in the form of bereavement communication training. The lack of training can lead to clinical photographers feeling ill-prepared to communicate with bereaved parents. This paper aims to identify if clinical photographers feel there is a need for training or written guidance and what they would wish to see included within it. A questionnaire was distributed to clinical photographers via the Institute of Medical Illustrators to gather opinions, results indicate that the majority feel there is a need.

Illustrations of the internal workings of the brain often depict arrows. In contrast, many illustrations which depict the link between certain brain functions and the outside world harness a graphic technique more usually associated with forms of popular culture such as comics. This technique comprises a balloon containing an image or message linked either by a tail emanating from the mouth when representing speech, or by a stream of bubbles emanating from the head when representing thought. Although a pictorial speech device first appeared over two millennia ago, balloons with their linkages now have various important practical clinical applications, notably in autism spectrum disorders, profound deafness in children without neurocognitive impairment, and sexual health education.

This article presents a quantitative analysis of mentions to cancer on Instagram. Using thousands of images with cancer-related hashtags, we build several visualisations to capture their distribution. Source images are clustered by their visual traits and by the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of the cancer site they refer to. Our goal is three-fold: to provide a quantitative basis for future research on the representation of cancer online; to offer an interpretation of the sources of the imbalanced representation of the different cancer sites; and to motivate a debate on how that representation may affect patients and families.