Where is accuracy - the importance of software in healthcare
Digital technologies are transforming neurosurgery from planning all the way to the procedure itself. Brainlab, founded in 1991, developed a 3D anatomical atlas of the human body that connects medical data with precise visualization of structures. The result is navigated surgery, in which the surgeon navigates within the patient's body similarly to how a driver follows maps. The company’s beginnings reach back to early IT experiments that processed medical data on the hardware of the time and paved the way for its clinical use. The key outcome is an anatomical atlas that maps the entire human body in 3D and can overlay various imaging modalities onto it. In practice, it works like layers in mapping applications: roads, landmarks, and precise coordinates are placed on top of the base “terrain.” Such integration gives the surgeon a clear sense of where they are during the procedure and which structures to protect.From the Commodore 64 to a 3D atlas of the human body
