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Posts from category Informatics

H1N1 in 3D

The video embedded below was created by Hybrid Medical; it’s a short clip demonstrating the antigenic variation that manufactured the current H1N1/Swine Flu via a breathtaking CGI animation. Personally, I have only a rudimentary experience with medical animation (dabbling with Blender in college for class assignments), but it is an interesting component of the education side of pathology informatics that I’ll definitely have to take a deeper look into in the future.

Virtual slide viewer powered by the Google Maps API

A team at the NYU School of Medicine’s Division of Educational Informatics has created a brilliant implementation of a virtual slide viewer using the Google Maps API. They are using their viewer to view digital slides acquired using Bacus and Aperio slide scanners.  In my opinion, this is superior in some ways to the viewers [...]

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