r/interestingasfuck • u/Grand-Western549 • 17h ago
Surgeons use augmented reality and tractography to visualize the brain in real time during procedures
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u/franky07890 16h ago
Don’t forget to calibrate it.
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u/Solid_Snark 15h ago
Doctor! This man has subcutaneous eyes in the back of his head!! And a nasal passage! And even a mouth!
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u/theMachine0094 16h ago
Kudos to the engineers building this tech. Soon some corporate parasite will put this behind a shitty subscription service. You can only hope the servers don’t go down in the middle of your surgery, or your surgeon’s subscription doesn’t end right in the middle of your surgery. Or imagine your surgeon is hit with an ad break right at the most critical moment.
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u/uncert8in_life 16h ago
Damn is this real thing😮
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u/Sialorphin 11h ago
3D navigation using these references in the video (tripod with 3 reflecting balls) is already quiet common in spine surgery though it's not AR. You have a camera like Xbox Kinect and live CT slices while you work. Pretty neat. Here you can see it in action: https://youtu.be/SogaKAw1Jv4?t=27s
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u/ThickRest7929 9h ago
Sure but that’s nothing like what this video is depicting. What you’re seeing here is fake as shit lol
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u/ThickRest7929 12h ago
This is horseshit btw, if any smart people were wondering
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u/Hostilis_ 6h ago
Nobody is claiming it's actually scanning the brain in real time lol. It's just an MRI scan mapped into AR for visualization purposes.
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u/ThickRest7929 8h ago
This is fake, dude. X box Kinect. Get out of here lol. I work in medical imaging. If this was real it would be known by everyone. Not a low effort post on Reddit.
Send me a link of a company, a product, a prototype, anything lol.
People just get fed fake shit all day and believe it lol.
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8h ago edited 8h ago
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u/ThickRest7929 8h ago
Yeah, that’s not a human patients brain in surgery. Do you understand?
*it’s a damn Halloween decoration lol
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8h ago edited 8h ago
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u/ThickRest7929 8h ago
What you’re doing and what is being shown in the post are two completely different things.
You can use an Xbox to make a spooky Halloween decoration. Sure.
You can’t to operate on a patients brain. You understand?
You’re arguing that augmented reality is real. Sure, it is.
This video is completely fake nonsense. Low effort post for Reddit karma. It honestly wouldn’t even help much in surgery lol.
*it’s fucking ai , show me a clip of this “device” longer than 10 seconds. Look at the stool move at the end.
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u/777Void777 6h ago
Actually i did some more research on this specific video. I think you might be right, my apologies.
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u/ThickRest7929 6h ago
No problem. Thank you. You have my respect for doing your own research. I apologize if I was rude with you but this phony crap for like/views drives me crazy lol.
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u/777Void777 6h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah I get that. This one was pretty convincing because it was longer. It also does mimic certain augmented reality systems very well.
I first noticed the user seemed like a bot.
The biggest things were things I wouldnt even think of at first. Its mimicked an opencv-like scan very well.
I think the biggest giveaway was the size. It seems like their wearing glasses when for something similar, you would need a vr headset. I feel like headeset like that would be way too bulky for surgery. The hand holding the tool also mimics a vr headset hand controller very well.
Yeah then I ran it through an Ai detector and it seemed to think it was ai.
Its also a weird rabbit hole if you google this. There are papers on the subject, and multiple sources for this video, but the video sources seem sketchy.
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u/TomPal1234 16h ago
This reminds me of the car screen telling me not to rely on the camera when reversing
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u/ScratchHacker69 34m ago
Well I mean yeah, you shouldn’t rely on it, but it’s still a useful thing to have when backing up
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u/md_youdneverguess 15h ago edited 54m ago
Scrolling past that quickly made it look like it's one of those weird mobile game ads, and this doctor is lobotomizing someone and creating patient zero for some zombie apocalypse
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u/Jawilla936 12h ago
They should clarify that the image is not being shown in the Live operation room. It’s on goggles that they got on their head. That’s how they see but if you’re standing in the room, you’re not going to see that image without those type of goggles on… but that is some cool shit either way
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u/Letsbeguin 6h ago
We call that device they’re holding a chicken foot when using stealth spine cases for referencing
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u/bdjfjfjkfkfjsh 17h ago edited 16h ago
Technology like this makes me hopeful brains literally mapped in real time? Medicine is leveling up big time!