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Cardiac medical visualisation

Real-time 3D imagery in an unfamiliar clinical domain

Annotated real-time 3D imagery that a previous development effort had failed to produce — in an unfamiliar clinical domain and on a visualisation toolkit with no reliable documentation. Delivered in a two-month engagement.

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The challenge

A cardiac visualisation product needed annotated real-time 3D imagery that an earlier development effort had been unable to produce. The work sat in an unfamiliar clinical domain, on a third-party visualisation toolkit with no reliable documentation — the two conditions that most often stall this kind of task.

What we did

  • Became sufficiently expert in the clinical domain, quickly — treating the medical context as an engineering problem in its own right rather than waiting to be handed requirements.
  • Worked out the undocumented toolkit’s real behaviour by experiment, then built the real-time annotation and rendering on top of it.

The result

  • Delivered the working 3D imagery the previous effort had not — in a two-month engagement.

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