Computer Vision News - May 2016

Application COMPUTER VISION NEWS The next opportunity which Gauss Surgical plans to seize lays in the field of maternity health: postpartum haemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal mortality . Satish and his team are very excited by the chance to leverage an advanced area of technology such as computer vision to extract from images crucial information which have a huge impact on our health, in particular in acute settings like the operating room. There is much more to do in patient monitoring, blood management and instruments management that could benefit from an elegant and user- friendly interface, residing on mobile devices and building on image analysis to bring a reliable answer to very practical questions. Satish declares himself extremely flattered by the support which he and his company have received by the computer vision community. Only a few weeks ago, Gauss Surgical has received $12.6 million in Series B financing. 6 “ Approximately 88 percent of all transfusions either resulted in harm or showed no benefit to the patient ” Society for the Advancement of Blood Management Transfusion Overuse 2014 As a consequence, all that the nurse needs to do is take a selfie of the sponge using the front camera of an iPad and in a few seconds receive a quantified figure of the blood loss. It is not easy to bring about a change in the workflow of the operating room, but building on the fact that the nurses already have to count sponges before and after usage to avoid forgetting one in the body of the patient, the Triton can fit into the existing routine by having the nurse wave the sponge at the iPad. Its easy adaptation into the sponge counting workflow brought the Triton feedback and acceptance by nurses, which is critical for the success of data collection.