Computer Visualisation of Medical Data - Towards Better Healthcare for You

Written by Gordon Clapworthy (external)

Gordon Clapworthy

University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

Seminar in English
December 16, 2009 at 13:00
University of West Bohemia, UV115

Abstract

The Centre for Computer Graphics and Visualisation (CCGV) at the University of Bedfordshire has been involved in the Living Human Project (LHP) with several European partners - bioengineers, anatomists and computer scientists - for many years.

The LHP was one of the founding projects for an ambitious pan-European initiative, sponsored by the European Commission, called the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH). This has the long-term vision of developing a multiscale model of the human physiology, which will revolutionise how healthcare can be provided to European citizens. The first VPH projects are already under way and further projects will follow successively in coming years. CCGV is currently involved in 8 such projects, generally providing visualisation, modelling and similar services to improve the facilities available for clinicians and medical researchers.

This talk will discuss the history and aims of the VPH and will look in detail at some of the visualisation aspects of the recent projects in which CCGV has been involved.

The speaker

Gordon Clapworthy is Professor of Computer Graphics and Head of the Centre for Computer Graphics & Visualisation at the University of Bedfordshire, based at Luton, UK. He has been actively engaged in research in computer graphics and visualisation for 25 years, has produced over 150 refereed publications and has participated in 23 projects funded by the European Commission continuously over the past 13 years.