Computer Vision News - March 2018

were tagged into the image. That is very important because in medicine seeing is essential, but you need to measure all the time. What we show to the surgeon is not only the 3D image. It’s also a large amount of clinical parameters that are automatically calculated from that 3D image because the image has anatomical content. When we take an image of the spine, we can calculate anything: from the distance between two vertebral plates to the position or space at that point. That helps to get automated clinical parameters in large numbers that weren’t available before. That’s what we do today. Obviously, we are also putting some deep learning methods to work to do that faster and more robustly. ” “ I think we’ve made a product that the orthopedic surgeons wanted -- Marie adds -- We listened a lot to surgeons and radiologists before we got started. That’s the initial design. Then, we’ve been both nimble and tenacious in proposing the solution to the market. We try to stay very dedicated: we try to serve best the orthopedic imaging needs and at the same time we don’t try to solve too many problems. ” At this point, EOS Imaging has an installed basis of about 250 platforms in 27 countries. They serve some of the very best hospitals involved in orthopedic surgery in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, China, Japan, Korea, and Australia. They started with the top hospitals, and now are branching out into second-tier sites . Looking ahead, they would like to add a feature that analyzes the chemical content of the bone. Once they have the structure and the microscopic shape of the bone organization with a flat radiograph, this feature would determine qualities such as whether the bone is deficient in calcium, osteopenic or osteoporotic. Computer Vision News “In medicine seeing is essential, but you need to measure all the time!” Application 18 Application: EOS Imaging “A product that the orthopedic surgeons wanted!”