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March 29, 2011

A Search Engine for the Human Body

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By Tom Simonite, Technology Review

A new search tool developed by researchers at Microsoft indexes medical images of the human body, rather than the Web. On CT scans, it automatically finds organs and other structures, to help doctors navigate in and work with 3-D medical imagery. CT scans use X-rays to capture many slices through the body that can be combined to create a 3-D representation.

http://technologyreview.com/computing/35076/?p1=MstRcnt

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