Computer Vision News 56 access to cutting-edge GPU technology. It can drop data through these processors at a very high rate, moving ever closer to its real-time scanning goal. “We show our scans to people in the device industry, and they say these are spectacular images, and the quality is really compelling,” Doug tells us. “We show our scans to surgeons, and they’re instantly convinced. Seeing is believing. Our belief as a company is there is more to see.” The real-time visualization of surgical procedures has long been a difficult task. VISIE sheds some of these historical problems, with its scanner dropping some of the weight and complexity of a traditional projector and computer vision taking center stage. “We more fully illuminate the scene,” Aaron reveals. “We have an excellent signal-to-noise ratio in our scans, and we’ve been doing them fairly quickly already. We excel in shortdistance scans, in particular – a place where projectors often fall short. As a structured white light 3D company, we’re moving forward well with that. We’re marrying the technology with a grand vision of seeing the scene and seeing the patient, to connect those things with the navigation going on so that it is as aware as the surgeon.” VISIE is investing a growing amount of time and effort into domain knowledge to understand what is happening in the scene. For example, what is the curvature of a femur? What does the ridge of a brain look like when exposed? What does the side of a lamina look like? “Part of that is taking the high amount of data and distilling it into actionable intelligence,” Aaron explains. “This is doing what you need to at a bare minimum, so you don’t have a huge amount of overhead in your offerings to provide the solution to the surgeon. We’re talking about as lightweight a touch as we can bring to the OR, but to do the most value with what we bring in.” Like any small start-up in the current climate, VISIE is already entering a Medical Imaging in the OR
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