Wednesday, 10 December 2014

The use of 3D animation in the Health Industry



Above is a video of an MRI scan. Now I appreciate this isn't technically animation, is formed a moving image and therefore has paved the way for technology in the health industry. I don't think, well I can't find any form of animation that's used to diagnose illnesses because it's just not advanced enough to react to a patient being there and then. All animation takes a lot of time to make. This is the limitation. But studies have shown that students who are studying medicine learn better with the aid of 3DCG animation.

Interactive 3DCG materials have positive effects on medical education when properly integrated into conventional education. In particular, our results suggest that interactive 3DCG is more efficient than textbooks alone in medical education and can motivate students to understand complex anatomical structures.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626131/

Here's one video that shows how anatomical charts can be dissected and have certain organs or nerves or even bones, so you can see further into the body without cutting the body up. With microscopic image processing, the colours are changed, brightness altered and a few other tweaks, but to me, I wouldn't class this as animation more a rotoscoping of what is already there.




This final video is what I think of when I consider 3DCG animation in the Health Sector. This is how students learn when it's visible. Often as well when you're talking about things on such a small scale like in microbiology, you often can visualise a working nerves or white blood cells and there antibodies so I think it does just help clarify the complicated stuff. As well with the use of ipad's and modern tablets you can make them interactive and have the names and be able to click bits and slow them down which is helping us gain a new era of doctors through a new medium of learning. Some people just aren't made to take things in via a textbook but they are good with there hands and perfectly capable at the job but need help seeing it first to process. This is going to mean a new era in education and maybe we will get some more doctors out of it and more lives will be helped in the process and it'll be a brighter future people. This isn't a limitation this is the future with this technology.

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