Computers In Surgery And Diagnosis

Recent adva.nces in image and signal processing have created a new challenging environment for biomedical engineers. Methods that were developed for different fields are now finding a fertile ground in biomedicine, especially in the analysis of bio-signals and in the understanding of images. More and more, these methods are used in the operating room, helping surgeons, and in the physician's office as aids for diagnostic purposes. We have useld advanced signal processing and innovative image processing methods that are used along with computational intelligence for diagnostic purposes and as visualization aids inside and outside the operating room. The software is written in C" in a windows environment and can be used on any PC. We will demonstrate some applications on a 233 M H z laptop, equipped with a 5 Gigabyte hard disk and 64 MB of memory.