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Browsing Digital Images by Hand in New Scientist Magazine
Postdoctoral researcher working on device for browsing digital images during surgery using only hand gestures
Browsing Images During Surgery Using Hand Gestures
"In the ICU, the use of computer keyboard, mouse, and joystick by physicians to access medical records and digital images is a common means of spreading infections," said industrial engineer Juan P. Wachs, Ph.D., currently of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
The New Scientist Magazine story "Surgeons Get Minority Report-style Display" from 11 June 2008 may be found here.
A related article on Diagnostic Imaging's PACSweb microsite from 8 May 2008 is here.
Dr. Wachs is a postdoc from the NRC Research Associateship Program working with Mathias Kolsch in the Computer Vision Group at NPS on topics related to computer vision, human-robot interfaces, multimodal interaction and gesture recognition.
Dr. Juan Wachs received his B.Ed.Tech degree in Electrical Education from the ORT Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1995. He received his M.Sc. in Information Systems, and a PhD degree in Intelligent Systems at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, in 2007.
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